fix(gateway): persist mitmproxy CA on the host, not a named volume (#450)

The shared gateway self-generates a mitmproxy CA that every bottle installs
to trust its TLS interception. It was persisted on a Docker named volume,
which survives `docker rm` but is silently wiped by `docker volume prune` /
`docker system prune --volumes` during routine host maintenance. When that
happens the gateway mints a fresh CA on restart, and every already-running
bottle fails the TLS handshake even after it re-resolves and reconnects to
the moved gateway — a re-attachment blocker distinct from #443/#445.

Move CA persistence to a host bind-mount under the app-data root
(`bot_bottle_root()/gateway-ca`, via `host_gateway_ca_dir()`), mirroring how
the shared DB and control-plane token already live on the host. Docker never
prunes a path under the root, and it stays inspectable + rotatable from the
host. mitmproxy already adopts an existing CA and generates one only on first
run, so the bind-mount gives adopt-existing/generate-on-first-run for free.

Add an explicit rollover path: `rotate_gateway_ca()` clears the persisted CA
so the next start remints it, and `python -m bot_bottle.orchestrator.rotate_ca`
wires that together with dropping the running gateway container (whose
mitmproxy still holds the old CA in memory). Rotation stays an operator action
— it doesn't auto-re-provision running bottles, which re-attach to pick up the
new anchor.

Scope: the Docker infra/gateway path (the "infra container" in the report).
The macOS (`container`-only volume) and Firecracker (VM-attached ext4) backends
persist the CA differently and are unaffected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-07-21 18:16:28 +00:00
committed by didericis
parent 3b5c55bc8e
commit 8a1b833aaa
8 changed files with 301 additions and 16 deletions
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@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ HOST_DB_FILENAME = "bot-bottle.db"
CONTROL_PLANE_TOKEN_FILENAME = "control-plane-token"
CONTROL_PLANE_TOKEN_ENV = "BOT_BOTTLE_CONTROL_PLANE_TOKEN"
# The host directory holding the gateway's persistent mitmproxy CA. Bind-mounted
# into the infra/gateway container at mitmproxy's confdir so the self-generated
# CA survives container recreation — every agent installs this one CA to trust
# the shared gateway's TLS interception, so it must not rotate on restart. See
# host_gateway_ca_dir() for why this is a host bind-mount, not a named volume.
GATEWAY_CA_DIRNAME = "gateway-ca"
def bot_bottle_root() -> Path:
"""The app data root — `$BOT_BOTTLE_ROOT` if set, else `~/.bot-bottle`."""
@@ -59,6 +66,23 @@ def host_db_dir() -> Path:
return db_dir
def host_gateway_ca_dir() -> Path:
"""The directory holding the gateway's persistent mitmproxy CA, created if
missing. Backends bind-mount this into the infra/gateway container at
mitmproxy's confdir so the CA persists across container recreation.
A host bind-mount under the app-data root — deliberately NOT a Docker
named volume. A named volume survives `docker rm` but is silently wiped by
`docker volume prune` / `docker system prune --volumes` during routine host
maintenance; the gateway then mints a fresh CA that every already-running
bottle distrusts, failing the TLS handshake even after it reconnects to the
moved gateway (issue #450). A path under the root docker never prunes it,
and it stays directly inspectable + rotatable from the host."""
ca_dir = bot_bottle_root() / GATEWAY_CA_DIRNAME
ca_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
return ca_dir
def host_control_plane_token() -> str:
"""The per-host control-plane secret, minted (256-bit, url-safe) and
persisted 0600 on first use, then reused.
@@ -94,8 +118,10 @@ __all__ = [
"HOST_DB_FILENAME",
"CONTROL_PLANE_TOKEN_FILENAME",
"CONTROL_PLANE_TOKEN_ENV",
"GATEWAY_CA_DIRNAME",
"bot_bottle_root",
"host_db_path",
"host_db_dir",
"host_gateway_ca_dir",
"host_control_plane_token",
]