The infra VM's rootfs is ephemeral (rebuilt each boot), so the bottle
registry DB needs durable storage across restarts. Give the infra VM a
firecracker analogue of a docker volume: a host-side ext4 file attached as
a second virtio-block device (guest /dev/vdb), mounted at the control
plane's DB dir (/var/lib/bot-bottle, where host_db_path lives at
db/bot-bottle.db).
- firecracker_vm.boot/_config take an optional `data_drive` (a non-root,
RW second drive).
- infra_vm creates the volume on first use (`mke2fs` an empty ext4 at
<fc-cache>/infra/registry.ext4) and mounts /dev/vdb in the PID-1 init
before the control plane starts. It's a plain ext4 file, so
`sudo mount -o loop <path>` (VM stopped) inspects bot-bottle.db directly.
Verified on a KVM host: register a bottle, restart the infra VM (fresh
rootfs, same volume) — /dev/vdb re-mounts and the registry `db/` dir + a
marker file survive the restart.
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consolidated_launch now drives the persistent infra VM instead of the
`_FirecrackerOrchestratorService` Docker containers — the point Docker
leaves the Firecracker launch path.
- launch_consolidated: `infra_vm.ensure_running()` (singleton) for the
control plane + gateway; register the bottle over HTTP at the infra VM's
guest IP; provision git-gate via `SshGatewayTransport` (over SSH into the
gateway VM); fetch the gateway CA via `InfraVm.gateway_ca_pem()`.
- teardown_consolidated deregisters + deprovisions but does NOT stop the
infra VM (persistent per-host singleton shared by every bottle).
- new `infra_vm.SshGatewayTransport` + `gateway_transport()` (built from the
stable key + orchestrator link IP, so teardown needs no live handle).
- drop the DockerGateway/OrchestratorService machinery from the firecracker
consolidated path (still used by the docker backend).
launch.py already calls launch_consolidated, so the whole firecracker
launch path now uses the VM. pyright + unit suite green.
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The infra VM must outlive the short-lived `start` launcher and be reused
across launches. Add an idempotent singleton:
- `ensure_running()` adopts the infra VM when its control plane is already
healthy (a prior launcher booted it), else clears any stale VM and boots
a fresh one. Returns a handle usable for CA fetch / git-gate provisioning
whether we booted it or adopted it.
- boot is `detached` (firecracker in its own session via start_new_session)
so it survives the launcher exiting; its PID is recorded so a later
process can `stop()` it. `_kill_pidfile` SIGTERM/SIGKILLs but only if the
PID is still a firecracker process (guards a recycled PID).
- a STABLE SSH key (generated once under the infra cache dir, re-injected
each boot via the cmdline) so any launcher can SSH in to fetch the CA /
provision, not just the one that booted the VM. `InfraVm.vm` is None in
the adopted case; teardown then goes through the PID file.
Verified on a KVM host: first ensure_running boots; a second adopts it
(same PID, no reboot) and can still reach /health and fetch the gateway CA
over SSH; stop() tears it down (control plane then unreachable).
Next: git-gate provisioning into the VM over SSH (today docker exec/cp),
then swap consolidated_launch.py onto the infra VM.
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The single infra VM now runs BOTH the orchestrator control plane and the
gateway data plane (egress / supervise / git-http), multi-tenant against
the local control plane — the single-VM shape from the Stage B design.
- Dockerfile.infra: the firecracker infra image = the gateway image +
the baked control-plane source (FROM bot-bottle-gateway, COPY
bot_bottle). Reuses the gateway payload rather than copying mitmproxy/
gitleaks into a third image; the docker backend keeps its two separate
images.
- infra_vm: build from source (gateway then infra image), and the PID-1
init now also launches `gateway_init` with
BOT_BOTTLE_ORCHESTRATOR_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8099. Adds `gateway_ca_pem`
(fetch the mitmproxy CA over SSH) and the agent-facing port constants.
- init exports PATH — a bare-init shell resolves its own execs via a
built-in default path, but that isn't in the environment, so
gateway_init's `python3 ...` daemons would otherwise fail to spawn.
Verified on a KVM host: infra VM boots, control plane /health -> 200, and
egress:9099 / supervise:9100 / git-http:9420 all listen and are reachable
from the host over the TAP link; the gateway CA is retrievable. (git-gate
stays down until a bottle provisions its per-bottle entrypoint/creds, same
as a fresh docker gateway — non-fatal, the supervisor keeps the rest up.)
Next: agent->gateway VM-to-VM routing so bbfc* VMs reach these ports at
the infra VM and nowhere else.
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First slice of Stage B: the orchestrator control plane runs as a
persistent Firecracker infra VM instead of a Docker container. The host
CLI reaches it over HTTP at the orchestrator link's guest IP; agent VMs
will reach its gateway ports (added next) over VM-to-VM routing.
- Dockerfile.orchestrator bakes the stdlib-only control-plane source
(COPY bot_bottle) so the image is self-contained and runs from a built
image with no runtime bind-mount — a guest VM can't bind-mount host
source. (Build-from-source stays the default; a pull-from-registry mode
lands later. The docker backend's dev bind-mount still overlays this.)
- util.build_base_rootfs_dir / inject_guest_boot take a `variant` +
`init_script`, so the same orchestrator image is prepared two ways
without a cache collision: the builder VM keeps the SSH-only agent init;
the infra VM gets a control-plane PID-1 init.
- new firecracker/infra_vm.py: boot the infra VM on the orchestrator link,
run `python -m bot_bottle.orchestrator` as PID 1, and poll /health.
Verified on a KVM host: infra VM boots, control plane answers
`GET /health -> 200 {"status":"ok"}` from the host over the TAP link.
Next: fold gateway_init (egress/git-gate/supervise) into the same VM,
then agent->gateway routing.
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