swarmctl CLI gains --tls/--cert/--key/--client-ca flags. With --tls the
controller runs uvicorn under HTTPS + mTLS (CERT_REQUIRED) so worker
heartbeats can reach it cross-host. Default is still 127.0.0.1 plaintext
for backwards compat with the master-CLI enrollment flow.
Auto-issue path (no --cert/--key given): a server cert signed by the
existing DECNET CA is issued once and parked under ~/.decnet/swarmctl/.
Workers already ship that CA's ca.crt from the enroll bundle, so they
verify the endpoint with no extra trust config. BYOC via --cert/--key
when the operator wants a publicly-trusted or externally-managed cert.
The auto-cert path is idempotent across restarts to keep a stable
fingerprint for any long-lived mTLS sessions.
New POST /swarm/heartbeat on the swarm controller. Workers post every
~30s with the output of executor.status(); the master bumps
SwarmHost.last_heartbeat and re-upserts each DeckyShard with a fresh
DeckyConfig snapshot and runtime-derived state (running/degraded).
Security: CA-signed mTLS alone is not sufficient — a decommissioned
worker's still-valid cert could resurrect ghost shards. The endpoint
extracts the presented peer cert (primary: scope["extensions"]["tls"],
fallback: transport.get_extra_info("ssl_object")) and SHA-256-pins it
to the SwarmHost.client_cert_fingerprint stored for the claimed
host_uuid. Extraction is factored into _extract_peer_fingerprint so
tests can exercise both uvicorn scope shapes and the both-unavailable
fail-closed path without mocking uvicorn's TLS pipeline.
Adds get_swarm_host_by_fingerprint to the repo interface (SQLModel
impl reuses the indexed client_cert_fingerprint column).
The reaper was being SIGTERM'd mid-rm because `start_new_session=True`
only forks a new POSIX session — it does not escape decnet-agent.service's
cgroup. When the reaper ran `systemctl stop decnet-agent`, systemd
tore down the whole cgroup (reaper included) before `rm -rf /opt/decnet*`
finished, leaving the install on disk.
Spawn the reaper via `systemd-run --collect --unit decnet-reaper-<pid>`
so it runs in a fresh transient scope, outside the agent unit. Falls
back to bare Popen for non-systemd hosts.
Decommissioning a worker from the dashboard (or swarm controller) now
asks the agent to wipe its own install before the master forgets it.
The agent stops decky containers + every decnet-* systemd unit, then
deletes /opt/decnet*, /etc/systemd/system/decnet-*, /var/lib/decnet/*,
and /usr/local/bin/decnet*. Logs under /var/log are preserved.
The reaper runs as a detached /tmp script (start_new_session=True) so
it survives the agent process being killed. Self-destruct dispatch is
best-effort — a dead worker doesn't block master-side cleanup.
docker compose up is partial-success-friendly — a build failure on one
service doesn't roll back the others. But the master was catching the
agent's 500 and tagging every decky in the shard as 'failed' with the
same error message. From the UI that looked like all three deckies died
even though two were live on the worker.
On dispatch exception, probe the agent's /status to learn which deckies
actually have running containers, and upsert per-decky state accordingly.
Only fall back to marking the whole shard failed if the status probe
itself is unreachable.
Enhance agent.executor.status() to include a 'runtime' map keyed by
decky name with per-service container state, so the master has something
concrete to consult.
Adds a separate `decnet updater` daemon on each worker that owns the
agent's release directory and installs tarball pushes from the master
over mTLS. A normal `/update` never touches the updater itself, so the
updater is always a known-good rescuer if a bad agent push breaks
/health — the rotation is reversed and the agent restarted against the
previous release. `POST /update-self` handles updater upgrades
explicitly (no auto-rollback).
- decnet/updater/: executor, FastAPI app, uvicorn launcher
- decnet/swarm/updater_client.py, tar_tree.py: master-side push
- cli: `decnet updater`, `decnet swarm update [--host|--all]
[--include-self] [--dry-run]`, `--updater` on `swarm enroll`
- enrollment API issues a second cert (CN=updater@<host>) signed by the
same CA; SwarmHost records updater_cert_fingerprint
- tests: executor, app, CLI, tar tree, enroll-with-updater (37 new)
- wiki: Remote-Updates page + sidebar + SWARM-Mode cross-link
`swarm list` only shows enrolled workers — there was no way to see which
deckies are running and where. Adds GET /swarm/deckies on the controller
(joins DeckyShard with SwarmHost for name/address/status) plus the CLI
wrapper with --host / --state filters and --json.
deploy --mode swarm was failing on every heterogeneous fleet: the master
populates config.interface from its own box (detect_interface() → its
default NIC), then ships that verbatim. The worker's deployer then calls
get_host_ip(config.interface), hits 'ip addr show wlp6s0' on a VM whose
NIC is enp0s3, and 500s.
Fix: agent.executor._relocalize() runs on every swarm-mode deploy.
Re-detects the worker's interface/subnet/gateway/host_ip locally and
swaps them into the config before calling deployer.deploy(). When the
worker's subnet doesn't match the master's, decky IPs are re-allocated
from the worker's subnet via allocate_ips() so they're reachable.
Unihost-mode configs are left untouched — they're already built against
the local box and second-guessing them would be wrong.
Validated against anti@192.168.1.13: master dispatched interface=wlp6s0,
agent logged 'relocalized interface=enp0s3', deployer ran successfully,
dry-run returned ok=deployed.
4 new tests cover both branches (matching-subnet preserves decky IPs;
mismatch re-allocates), the end-to-end executor.deploy() path, and the
unihost short-circuit.
The swarmctl API already exposes POST /swarm/check — an active mTLS
probe that refreshes SwarmHost.status + last_heartbeat for every
enrolled worker. The CLI was missing a wrapper, so operators had to
curl the endpoint directly (which is how the VM validation run did it,
and how the wiki Deployment-Modes / SWARM-Mode pages ended up doc'ing
a command that didn't exist yet).
Matches the existing list/enroll/decommission pattern: typer subcommand
under swarm_app, --url override, Rich table output plus --json for
scripting. Three tests: populated table, empty-swarm path, and --json
emission.
Covers failure modes the happy-path tests miss:
- log rotation (copytruncate): st_size shrinks under the forwarder, it
resets offset=0 and reships the new contents instead of getting wedged
past EOF;
- listener restart: forwarder retries, resumes from the persisted offset,
and the previously-acked lines are NOT duplicated on the master;
- listener tolerates a well-authenticated client that sends a partial
octet-count frame and drops — the server must stay up and accept
follow-on connections;
- peer_cn / fingerprint_from_ssl degrade to 'unknown' / None when no
peer cert is available (defensive path that otherwise rarely fires).
New sub-app talks HTTP to the local swarm controller (127.0.0.1:8770 by
default; override with --url or $DECNET_SWARMCTL_URL).
- enroll: POSTs /swarm/enroll, prints fingerprint, optionally writes
ca.crt/worker.crt/worker.key to --out-dir for scp to the worker.
- list: renders enrolled workers as a rich table (with --status filter).
- decommission: looks up uuid by --name, confirms, DELETEs.
deploy --mode swarm now:
1. fetches enrolled+active workers from the controller,
2. round-robin-assigns host_uuid to each decky,
3. POSTs the sharded DecnetConfig to /swarm/deploy,
4. renders per-worker pass/fail in a results table.
Exits non-zero if no workers exist or any worker's dispatch failed.
The forwarder module existed but had no runner — closes that gap so the
worker-side process can actually be launched and runs isolated from the
agent (asyncio.run + SIGTERM/SIGINT → stop_event).
Guards: refuses to start without a worker cert bundle or a resolvable
master host ($DECNET_SWARM_MASTER_HOST or --master-host).
Worker-side log_forwarder tails the local RFC 5424 log file and ships
each line as an octet-counted frame to the master over mTLS. Offset is
persisted in a tiny local SQLite so master outages never cause loss or
duplication — reconnect resumes from the exact byte where the previous
session left off. Impostor workers (cert not signed by DECNET CA) are
rejected at TLS handshake.
Master-side log_listener terminates mTLS on 0.0.0.0:6514, validates the
client cert, extracts the peer CN as authoritative worker provenance,
and appends each frame to the master's ingest log files. Attacker-
controlled syslog HOSTNAME field is ignored — the CA-controlled CN is
the only source of provenance.
7 tests added covering framing codec, offset persistence across
reopens, end-to-end mTLS delivery, crash-resilience (offset survives
restart, no duplicate shipping), and impostor-CA rejection.
DECNET_SWARM_SYSLOG_PORT / DECNET_SWARM_MASTER_HOST env bindings
added.
Splits the three grouped router files into eight api_<verb>_<resource>.py
modules under decnet/web/router/swarm/ to match the convention used by
router/fleet/ and router/config/. Shared request/response models live in
_schemas.py. Keeps each endpoint easy to locate and modify without
stepping on siblings.
Adds decnet/web/swarm_api.py as an independent FastAPI app with routers
for host enrollment, deployment dispatch (sharding DecnetConfig across
enrolled workers via AgentClient), and active health probing. Runs as
its own uvicorn subprocess via 'decnet swarmctl', mirroring the isolation
pattern used by 'decnet api'. Also wires up 'decnet agent' CLI entry for
the worker side.
29 tests added under tests/swarm/test_swarm_api.py cover enrollment
(including bundle generation + duplicate rejection), host CRUD, sharding
correctness, non-swarm-mode rejection, teardown, and health probes with
a stubbed AgentClient.
- decnet.models.DeckyConfig grows an optional 'host_uuid' (the SwarmHost
that runs this decky). Defaults to None so legacy unihost state files
deserialize unchanged.
- decnet.agent.executor: replace non-existent config.name references
with config.mode / config.interface in logs and status payload.
- tests/swarm/test_state_schema.py covers legacy-dict roundtrip, field
default, and swarm-mode assignments.
decnet.swarm.client exposes:
- MasterIdentity / ensure_master_identity(): the master's own CA-signed
client bundle, issued once into ~/.decnet/ca/master/.
- AgentClient: async-context httpx wrapper that talks to a worker agent
over mTLS. health/status/deploy/teardown methods mirror the agent API.
SSL context is built from a bare ssl.SSLContext(PROTOCOL_TLS_CLIENT)
instead of httpx.create_ssl_context — the latter layers on default-CA
and purpose logic that broke private-CA mTLS. Server cert is pinned by
CA + chain, not DNS (workers enroll with arbitrary SANs).
tests/swarm/test_client_agent_roundtrip.py spins uvicorn in-process
with real certs on disk and verifies:
- A CA-signed master client passes health + status calls.
- An impostor whose cert comes from a different CA cannot connect.
Worker agent (decnet.agent):
- mTLS FastAPI service exposing /deploy, /teardown, /status, /health,
/mutate. uvicorn enforces CERT_REQUIRED with the DECNET CA pinned.
- executor.py offloads the blocking deployer onto asyncio.to_thread so
the event loop stays responsive.
- server.py refuses to start without an enrolled bundle in
~/.decnet/agent/ — unauthenticated agents are not a supported mode.
- docs/openapi disabled on the agent — narrow attack surface.
tests/test_base_repo.py: DummyRepo was missing get_attacker_artifacts
(pre-existing abstractmethod) and so could not be instantiated. Added
the stub + coverage for the new swarm CRUD surface on BaseRepository.
decnet.swarm.pki provides:
- generate_ca() / ensure_ca() — self-signed root, PKCS8 PEM, 4096-bit.
- issue_worker_cert() — per-worker keypair + cert signed by the CA with
serverAuth + clientAuth EKU so the same identity backs the agent's
HTTPS endpoint AND the syslog-over-TLS upstream.
- write_worker_bundle() / load_worker_bundle() — persist with 0600 on
private keys.
- fingerprint() — SHA-256 DER hex for master-side pinning.
tests/swarm/test_pki.py covers:
- CA idempotency on disk.
- Signed chain validates against CA subject.
- SAN population (DNS + IP).
- Bundle roundtrip with 0600 key perms.
- End-to-end mTLS handshake between two CA-issued peers.
- Cross-CA client rejection (handshake fails).
