Auto-issue + auto-renew the admin-UI TLS cert with a long-running compose
side-car instead of a host cron. The `acme` service (goacme/lego image, running
acme/renew-loop.sh) obtains the cert over DNS-01 via the AWS Route 53 API,
writes fullchain/privkey into ./pki/admin/ — the SAME dir the manager reads
(./pki:/pki:ro) — and chowns them to the nonroot runtime uid so the read-only
container can load the key. The manager's certReloader hot-swaps on the mtime
bump, no restart. Loop renews within 30 days of expiry; ACME_STAGING=1 gives a
dry-run vs LE staging.
- docker-compose.yml: `acme` service + `acme-state` volume (lego account/cert
store). ACME_DOMAIN reuses FLEET_MGR_RP_ID so cert host == passkey origin.
- .env.example: ACME_EMAIL + AWS creds (or instance role) + ACME_STAGING.
- DEPLOY.md §2c: rewritten to the side-car flow — scoped Route 53 IAM policy,
bring-acme-up-first ordering, flip off insecure, and an origin-match note.
(The docker-compose.yml commit also carries the local harbor.bitasylum.org
influxdb image mirror edit.)
The distroless nonroot runtime (uid 65532) couldn't write /data/inventory.json
because a named volume is created root-owned — approve failed with permission
denied on the inventory birth. Pre-create /data owned by nonroot in the image so
a fresh volume inherits it via Docker copy-up; an already-created root-owned
volume still needs a one-time chown (documented).
DEPLOY.md:
- 2b now covers BOTH broker deployments — the main serving stack
(enrol-pki/broker, ENROL_ADMIN_INSECURE=true by default → must flip to false)
and the bench stack — with the mint-once-into-broker-dir, copy-CA-to-manager
flow and an mTLS verify curl.
- Troubleshooting section: the data-volume permission-denied fix, the
"authorise plane not configured" (recreate + single-instance) fix, and the
"wrong version number" (broker plaintext) fix.
Complete the deployment story for the server-side control plane:
- docker-compose.yml: private InfluxDB (published to loopback only) + a
host-networked fleet-manager (reaches the loopback enrol-broker on
127.0.0.1:9443 and binds a routable gRPC agent listener, like the broker).
- .env.example: RP origin (diskless-server.bitasylum.org), Influx token/DB
password, cert/PKI paths; the Influx token wires influxdb + manager with
one value.
- server-pki.sh: issue the agent-plane server cert from the fleet CA (step)
and stage the fleet root as the client-verify CA.
- DEPLOY.md: end-to-end runbook — three-cert PKI (fleet-CA agent cert, broker
admin-client cert, Let's Encrypt DNS-01 UI cert), register-admin passkey
bootstrap, compose up, hardware-free smoke test, backups.
- .dockerignore: keep host node_modules/dist/pki/secrets out of the build
context so the embedded SPA is the one built in-image.
- .gitignore: never commit .env / issued PKI / data.
Design docs marked as-built: fleet-management-design.md as-built note
(resolved forks — gRPC bidi transport, InfluxDB metrics, SPA graphs, passkey
admin auth, broker fold-in "alongside"); tpm-enrolment-design.md (broker
fold-in + agent transport fork resolved); TODO.md #14 → partly built, with
the on-host agent + per-host boot-version assignment (#6) called out as the
remaining work.
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