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Audiobuzz 1db3977238 fleet-manager: auto-renew the agent-plane server cert (step-ca sidecar + hot-reload)
The agent-plane server cert was issued by hand (server-pki.sh / docker exec
step ca certificate), which needs the step CLI on the host, re-specifies SANs
each time, and silently expires at the CA's 90-day cap — the exact failure that
just broke agent TLS (cert minted with a stale SAN, missing manager.fleet.lab).

Automate it:
- agent-cert-renewer sidecar (smallstep step-cli image, compose profile
  cert-auto): issues the cert once from the co-located fleet step-ca, then
  'step ca renew --daemon' rotates it before the cap. Renewal preserves the
  subject + SANs, so SAN drift cannot recur. Chowns to the manager's nonroot
  uid so the distroless manager reads the key. Opt-in + only valid where the CA
  is co-located; server-pki.sh stays as the manual/remote-CA path.
- manager hot-reloads via GetCertificate (certreload.go): a rotated cert on
  disk is picked up on the next handshake with no restart and no dropped agent
  streams; a half-written pair keeps the last good cert serving. Unit-tested.
- defaults.env documents the cert-auto knobs; DEPLOY.md §2a recommends the
  renewer and flags the mandatory manager.fleet.lab SAN.
2026-07-10 07:42:18 +00:00

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// certreload.go — hot-reloading server cert for the agent plane.
//
// The agent-plane server cert (issued by the fleet CA) is rotated OUT of process
// by the `agent-cert-renewer` sidecar running `step ca renew` (docker-compose.yml,
// profile cert-auto). For that rotation to take effect WITHOUT restarting the
// manager — which would drop every live agent stream — the TLS config serves the
// cert through GetCertificate instead of a fixed Certificates slice, and this
// reloader re-reads server.crt/server.key from disk when they change.
//
// Reload is lazy + modtime-gated: each handshake checks server.crt's modtime and
// re-reads the pair only when it advances. A failed reload (a half-written pair
// mid-renewal, transient bad perms) is logged and the LAST GOOD cert keeps
// serving — a renewer hiccup must never take the agent plane down — and because a
// failed reload does not advance the cached modtime, the next handshake retries
// until the write settles.
package main
import (
"crypto/tls"
"log"
"os"
"sync"
"time"
)
type certReloader struct {
certPath, keyPath string
mu sync.RWMutex
cert *tls.Certificate
modTime time.Time
}
// newCertReloader loads the pair once (fail-fast if missing/bad at startup) and
// returns a reloader whose GetCertificate hook is wired into the TLS config.
func newCertReloader(certPath, keyPath string) (*certReloader, error) {
r := &certReloader{certPath: certPath, keyPath: keyPath}
if err := r.reload(); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return r, nil
}
func (r *certReloader) reload() error {
c, err := tls.LoadX509KeyPair(r.certPath, r.keyPath)
if err != nil {
return err
}
var mt time.Time
if fi, err := os.Stat(r.certPath); err == nil {
mt = fi.ModTime()
}
r.mu.Lock()
r.cert, r.modTime = &c, mt
r.mu.Unlock()
return nil
}
// GetCertificate is the tls.Config hook. It reloads when server.crt's modtime has
// advanced past the cached copy, otherwise returns the cached cert unchanged.
func (r *certReloader) GetCertificate(*tls.ClientHelloInfo) (*tls.Certificate, error) {
r.mu.RLock()
cur, mt := r.cert, r.modTime
r.mu.RUnlock()
if fi, err := os.Stat(r.certPath); err == nil && fi.ModTime().After(mt) {
if err := r.reload(); err != nil {
log.Printf("agent plane: cert reload failed, keeping previous: %v", err)
} else {
r.mu.RLock()
cur = r.cert
r.mu.RUnlock()
log.Printf("agent plane: reloaded rotated server cert %s", r.certPath)
}
}
return cur, nil
}