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didericis 18d9b81add feat(firecracker): split orchestrator and gateway into separate VMs (PRD 0070)
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Now that #469 got the DB off the data plane, the Firecracker infra runs as
two microVMs instead of one — mirroring the docker/macos plane split:

  * orchestrator VM (ORCH_IFACE) — control plane + buildah image builds; sole
    DB opener; host-seeded signing key. No gateway daemons.
  * gateway VM (new GW_IFACE) — egress / git-http / supervise data plane;
    mitmproxy CA + a host-minted `gateway` JWT (never the key). Reaches the
    orchestrator only over the one nft forward rule its link allows.

Both boot the SAME shared infra rootfs; a `bb_role=` kernel-cmdline arg
selects which plane a VM's PID-1 init starts, so there is still one published
artifact. The gateway learns the orchestrator's address via `bb_orch=` on the
cmdline (no IP baked into the artifact).

Isolation is nearly free: agents were already nft-dropped except the DNAT'd
gateway ports, so re-pointing that single DNAT rule at the gateway VM
(`dnat to gw_guest`) severs every agent's L3 route to the control plane. The
only added nft is the second infra link's mirror block (masquerade egress +
forward accept, which subsumes gateway->orchestrator) in the shared shell
script and the NixOS module.

netpool gains GW_IFACE + gw_slot() (the /31 above the orch link);
firecracker_vm.boot gains extra_boot_args for the role cmdline; infra_vm
ensure_running() boots + adopts the pair (orchestrator first, then the gateway
that resolves policy against it) and returns an InfraEndpoint mirroring the
docker/macos shape. Builds stay in the orchestrator (PRD 0070 v1); the gateway
is the slim unit.

Unit-tested (test_firecracker_infra_vm rewritten for two VMs; gw_slot helper
test added); the KVM boot / L3-isolation checks are validated on a Firecracker
host.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-25 03:44:15 -04:00
didericis 81a2f15046 feat(firecracker): NAT'd egress link for the orchestrator/builder VM
The orchestrator/gateway VM is trusted infra, not an isolated agent: it
builds agent images in-VM (buildah must FROM-pull + apt/npm) and, in the
Stage B cutover, forwards agent egress upstream. Give it a dedicated TAP
(`bborch0`) on a /31 at the top of the IP_BASE /16 (clear of the bbfc*
agent pool at the bottom), NAT'd out the host uplink — while agent VMs
keep their fail-closed, gateway-only isolation table.

- netpool.defaults.env / netpool.py: new BOT_BOTTLE_FC_ORCH_IFACE +
  `orch_slot()` (index -1 sentinel; host x.y.255.0 / guest x.y.255.1).
- scripts/firecracker-netpool.sh: create + address the orchestrator TAP;
  `bot_bottle_fc_nat` table masquerades its /31 out the uplink and
  accepts its forward path. Because bootstrap still runs Docker (whose
  FORWARD policy is DROP), a best-effort, guarded, idempotent DOCKER-USER
  ACCEPT is added too (skipped once Docker is gone). down/status updated.
- nix/firecracker-netpool.nix: mirror the option, pass it via the unit
  Environment= (the store-copied script can't read the defaults file),
  and add iptables to the unit path for the DOCKER-USER step.

Agent isolation is unchanged: the new rules only ever accept/masquerade
the orchestrator link and never drop, so they can't weaken the bbfc*
drops. Applied by re-running `sudo ./scripts/firecracker-netpool.sh up`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WBMWTEtQdJ4W5UrWuLHCck
2026-07-16 14:36:54 -04:00
didericis 2b970d1170 refactor(firecracker): single-source the network-pool defaults
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The pool params (size, IP base, iface prefix, nft table) were triplicated
— hardcoded in netpool.py, scripts/firecracker-netpool.sh, and
nix/firecracker-netpool.nix — plus the IP math (3x) and the nft ruleset
(2x). Nothing enforced agreement; changing the base (ce3fad9, off CGNAT)
forced a coordinated three-file edit, and a missed one would silently
provision a range the launcher doesn't expect.

Collapse to one source of truth:

  * netpool.defaults.env — a plain KEY=VALUE file (bash-sourceable,
    systemd EnvironmentFile-compatible, Python- and Nix-parseable) holding
    the four defaults. A BOT_BOTTLE_FC_* env var still overrides any key.
  * netpool.py reads it for the Python defaults (missing file = hard
    error, not confusing empty defaults).
  * the shell script falls back to it (no literal `:-8` / `10.243.0.0`),
    and its `up` is now non-destructive/idempotent (only creates a
    missing TAP), so re-running never cuts a live VM.
  * the Nix module readFile-parses it for its option defaults and
    delegates bring-up to the SAME shell script (dropping its duplicate
    IP math, nft ruleset, and TAP loop) — passing every value as
    Environment= so the store-detached script never needs the file.

Net: defaults 3x -> 1x, nft ruleset 2x -> 1x, TAP loop 2x -> 1x. The one
remaining IP-math dup (Python launch-addressing vs bash bring-up) is
justified — different runtimes. Tests now guard the invariant (Python
reads the shared file; the script/module hold no literals) instead of
pinning duplicated strings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WBMWTEtQdJ4W5UrWuLHCck
2026-07-13 04:27:48 -04:00