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didericis-claude 8a1b833aaa 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>
2026-07-21 15:01:38 -04:00

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"""The consolidated per-host gateway (PRD 0070).
The core consolidation win: **one** persistent gateway per host, shared by
every bottle, instead of a gateway per bottle. It's safe to share
because the attribution invariant (source IP + identity token, see
`registry`) lets the gateway attribute each request to the right bottle —
so per-bottle policy lives in one long-lived process keyed on who's calling.
`Gateway` is the backend-neutral lifecycle contract (mirrors `LaunchBroker`):
ensure the single instance is up, report it, tear it down. `DockerGateway`
is the docker implementation; a firecracker gateway VM slots in later.
The defining behaviour is **idempotent singleton**: `ensure_running` starts
the instance if absent and is a no-op if it's already up, so N bottle
launches never spawn N gateways.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import abc
import os
import time
from pathlib import Path
from ..docker_cmd import run_docker
from ..paths import (
CONTROL_PLANE_TOKEN_ENV,
host_control_plane_token,
host_db_path,
host_gateway_ca_dir,
)
from ..supervise import DB_PATH_IN_CONTAINER
# The host DB dir is bind-mounted here so the gateway's supervise daemon
# writes its queued proposals into the ONE host DB (the same file the
# orchestrator container opens and the operator reaches over HTTP).
_SUPERVISE_DB_DIR_IN_CONTAINER = os.path.dirname(DB_PATH_IN_CONTAINER)
# The gateway's mitmproxy writes its CA a beat after the container starts, so
# reads poll for it rather than assuming it's there on a fresh launch.
_CA_POLL_SECONDS = 0.5
DEFAULT_CA_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 30.0
GATEWAY_NAME = "bot-bottle-orch-gateway"
GATEWAY_LABEL = "bot-bottle-orch-gateway=1"
# The single user-defined network the gateway and every agent bottle share.
# Agents attach here with a pinned IP and reach the gateway's egress /
# git-http / supervise ports by its address — no host port publishing, and
# the source IP the gateway attributes by is the address on this network.
GATEWAY_NETWORK = "bot-bottle-gateway"
# mitmproxy's CA dir in the bundle. The host's gateway-CA dir (see
# `host_gateway_ca_dir`) is bind-mounted here so the gateway's self-generated
# CA stays STABLE across container recreation — every agent installs this one
# CA to trust the shared gateway's TLS interception, so it must not rotate when
# the gateway restarts. A host bind-mount rather than a named volume: a named
# volume is silently wiped by `docker volume prune`, minting a fresh CA that
# breaks every running bottle (issue #450).
MITMPROXY_HOME = "/home/mitmproxy/.mitmproxy"
GATEWAY_CA_CERT = f"{MITMPROXY_HOME}/mitmproxy-ca-cert.pem"
# The CA material mitmproxy writes into its confdir. mitmproxy reuses these on
# startup when present and generates them only on first run, so persisting them
# is what makes the CA stable; deleting them (see `rotate_gateway_ca`) forces a
# fresh CA on the next start. `mitmproxy-ca.pem` (cert + private key) is the
# signing identity; the rest are derived encodings agents/clients consume.
GATEWAY_CA_GLOB = "mitmproxy-ca*"
# The gateway data-plane image + its Dockerfile. Kept as a local constant
# rather than imported from the backend layer, which would drag
# the whole backend layer into the lean orchestrator (see #359); unify when
# that lands. Env override matches the backend's BOT_BOTTLE_GATEWAY_IMAGE.
GATEWAY_IMAGE = os.environ.get("BOT_BOTTLE_GATEWAY_IMAGE", "bot-bottle-gateway:latest")
GATEWAY_DOCKERFILE = "Dockerfile.gateway"
_REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
def _host_db_dir() -> str:
"""The host DB directory (created if missing), for the gateway's
supervise-DB bind-mount."""
db_dir = host_db_path().parent
db_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
return str(db_dir)
def rotate_gateway_ca(ca_dir: Path | None = None) -> list[Path]:
"""Delete the persisted mitmproxy CA so the next gateway start mints a
fresh one — the explicit, deliberate CA-rollover path (issue #450).
Persistence keeps the CA stable across restarts precisely because mitmproxy
reuses the on-disk CA; rotation is therefore just removing that material.
Returns the files removed (empty when there was no CA yet); idempotent.
This only clears the on-disk CA. It does NOT stop the running gateway (whose
mitmproxy still holds the old CA in memory) or re-provision agents — the
caller recreates the gateway to mint the new CA and re-attaches bottles.
`rotate-ca` on the orchestrator CLI wires those steps together."""
ca_dir = ca_dir if ca_dir is not None else host_gateway_ca_dir()
removed: list[Path] = []
for path in sorted(ca_dir.glob(GATEWAY_CA_GLOB)):
path.unlink()
removed.append(path)
return removed
class GatewayError(Exception):
"""The shared gateway failed to build/start/stop (non-zero `docker` exit)."""
class Gateway(abc.ABC):
"""Lifecycle of the single per-host gateway. Backend-neutral."""
name: str
def ensure_built(self) -> None:
"""Ensure the gateway's image / rootfs exists, building it if needed.
Default: nothing to build (e.g. a stub or a pre-pulled image)."""
return
@abc.abstractmethod
def ensure_running(self) -> None:
"""Start the gateway if it isn't already up. Idempotent: a no-op
when it's already running (that's the whole point — one per host).
Assumes the image exists — call `ensure_built()` first."""
@abc.abstractmethod
def is_running(self) -> bool:
"""True iff the gateway instance is currently up."""
@abc.abstractmethod
def stop(self) -> None:
"""Remove the gateway. Idempotent — absent is success."""
class DockerGateway(Gateway):
"""The consolidated gateway as a single, fixed-name Docker container.
`image_ref` defaults to the gateway data-plane image; `ensure_built`
builds it from `Dockerfile.gateway` when it's missing. (Note: slice 5
builds + launches the bundle container; wiring its per-bottle,
source-IP-keyed config is a later slice — see PRD 0070.)"""
def __init__(
self,
image_ref: str = GATEWAY_IMAGE,
*,
name: str = GATEWAY_NAME,
network: str = GATEWAY_NETWORK,
orchestrator_url: str = "",
build_context: Path | None = None,
dockerfile: str | None = GATEWAY_DOCKERFILE,
host_port_bindings: tuple[int, ...] = (),
) -> None:
self.image_ref = image_ref
self.name = name
self.network = network
# The control-plane URL the gateway's data plane resolves per bottle
# against — reached by container name over docker DNS on the shared
# network (container↔container, no host firewall). Mandatory to *run*
# the gateway (see `ensure_running`); empty is tolerated only for the
# construct-then-read-CA path (`ca_cert_pem` on an already-running
# container), which never launches a container.
self._orchestrator_url = orchestrator_url
self._build_context = build_context or _REPO_ROOT
self._dockerfile = dockerfile
# Ports published on the host (0.0.0.0). Used by the Firecracker
# backend's dev-harness gateway so VMs can reach it via their TAP link;
# Docker's DNAT + the nft `ct status dnat accept` rule handle the rest.
self._host_port_bindings = host_port_bindings
def image_exists(self) -> bool:
return run_docker(["docker", "image", "inspect", self.image_ref]).returncode == 0
def ensure_built(self) -> None:
"""Build the bundle image from its Dockerfile, **cache-aware** — cheap
(a cache check) when nothing changed, a real rebuild when the flat
sources (egress addon / git-http / policy_resolver / supervise) moved.
This deliberately builds every time rather than build-if-missing: the
per-bottle model kept the image fresh via compose's `build:` on up, and
a stale image silently runs the OLD single-tenant daemons. No-op only
when no dockerfile is configured (a pre-pulled image). BOT_BOTTLE_NO_CACHE
forces a full rebuild (parity with `start --no-cache`)."""
if self._dockerfile is None:
return
argv = ["docker", "build", "-t", self.image_ref,
"-f", str(self._build_context / self._dockerfile),
str(self._build_context)]
if os.environ.get("BOT_BOTTLE_NO_CACHE"):
argv.insert(2, "--no-cache")
proc = run_docker(argv)
if proc.returncode != 0:
raise GatewayError(f"gateway image build failed: {proc.stderr.strip()}")
def is_running(self) -> bool:
proc = run_docker([
"docker", "ps",
"--filter", f"name=^{self.name}$",
"--filter", "status=running",
"--format", "{{.Names}}",
])
return self.name in proc.stdout.split()
def _running_image_is_current(self) -> bool:
"""True iff the running gateway was created from the *current*
`image_ref`. When `ensure_built` rebuilds the image (a source change),
the running container is still the OLD image running the OLD flat
daemons — so this is how a rebuild actually takes effect: a mismatch
means recreate."""
running = run_docker(["docker", "inspect", "--format", "{{.Image}}", self.name])
current = run_docker(["docker", "image", "inspect", "--format", "{{.Id}}", self.image_ref])
if running.returncode != 0 or current.returncode != 0:
return True # can't compare → don't churn a working container
return running.stdout.strip() == current.stdout.strip()
def _ensure_network(self) -> None:
"""Create the shared gateway network if it doesn't exist. Idempotent —
a concurrent create loses harmlessly (the loser sees 'already exists').
Docker picks the subnet; the launcher reads it back to allocate IPs."""
if run_docker(["docker", "network", "inspect", self.network]).returncode == 0:
return
proc = run_docker(["docker", "network", "create", self.network])
if proc.returncode != 0 and "already exists" not in proc.stderr:
raise GatewayError(
f"gateway network {self.network} failed to create: {proc.stderr.strip()}"
)
def ensure_running(self) -> None:
# Fail closed on a missing policy source. The data-plane daemons are
# resolver-only now (PRD 0070) — without an orchestrator URL egress
# raises, git-http exits 1, and supervise exits 2 — so launching a
# gateway without one would only crash-loop its daemons. Refuse here so
# the misconfiguration surfaces as a clear error, not a broken container.
if not self._orchestrator_url:
raise GatewayError(
"gateway requires an orchestrator URL to run "
"(resolver-only data plane; no single-tenant fallback)"
)
# Recreate when the running container's image is stale (a rebuild),
# so source changes to the gateway's flat daemons take effect — not
# just when the container is absent.
if self.is_running() and self._running_image_is_current():
return
self._ensure_network()
# Clear any stale (stopped OR outdated-image) container holding the
# fixed name, then start fresh. `rm --force` on an absent name is a
# tolerated no-op.
run_docker(["docker", "rm", "--force", self.name])
argv = [
"docker", "run", "--detach",
"--name", self.name,
"--label", GATEWAY_LABEL,
"--network", self.network,
# Persist the self-generated CA on the host so it survives both
# container recreation AND docker volume pruning (agents trust it)
# — see host_gateway_ca_dir / issue #450.
"--volume", f"{host_gateway_ca_dir()}:{MITMPROXY_HOME}",
# Share the one host DB: the supervise daemon queues proposals
# into the same file the orchestrator (and the operator, over
# HTTP) reads — no second, disconnected DB in the container.
"--volume", f"{_host_db_dir()}:{_SUPERVISE_DB_DIR_IN_CONTAINER}",
"--env", f"SUPERVISE_DB_PATH={DB_PATH_IN_CONTAINER}",
]
for port in self._host_port_bindings:
argv += ["--publish", f"0.0.0.0:{port}:{port}"]
run_env = dict(os.environ)
# The gateway's egress / git / supervise daemons resolve source-IP ->
# policy against the control plane per request (guaranteed non-empty by
# the check above).
argv += ["--env", f"BOT_BOTTLE_ORCHESTRATOR_URL={self._orchestrator_url}"]
# ...and present the control-plane secret on those /resolve calls (the
# control plane requires it). Bare `--env NAME` keeps the value off argv
# / `docker inspect`; only the gateway (not the agent) is given it.
argv += ["--env", CONTROL_PLANE_TOKEN_ENV]
run_env[CONTROL_PLANE_TOKEN_ENV] = host_control_plane_token()
argv.append(self.image_ref)
proc = run_docker(argv, env=run_env)
if proc.returncode != 0:
raise GatewayError(f"gateway failed to start: {proc.stderr.strip()}")
def ca_cert_pem(self, *, timeout: float = DEFAULT_CA_TIMEOUT_SECONDS) -> str:
"""The gateway's CA certificate (PEM) that agents install to trust its
TLS interception. mitmproxy generates it a moment after the container
starts, so this **polls** for it (up to `timeout`) rather than assuming
it's already there on a fresh gateway — raising only if it never
appears."""
deadline = time.monotonic() + timeout
while True:
proc = run_docker(["docker", "exec", self.name, "cat", GATEWAY_CA_CERT])
if proc.returncode == 0 and proc.stdout.strip():
return proc.stdout
if time.monotonic() >= deadline:
raise GatewayError(
f"gateway CA cert not available after {timeout:g}s: "
f"{proc.stderr.strip() or 'empty'}"
)
time.sleep(_CA_POLL_SECONDS)
def stop(self) -> None:
proc = run_docker(["docker", "rm", "--force", self.name])
if proc.returncode != 0 and "No such container" not in proc.stderr:
raise GatewayError(f"gateway failed to stop: {proc.stderr.strip()}")
__all__ = [
"Gateway", "DockerGateway", "GatewayError", "rotate_gateway_ca",
"GATEWAY_NAME", "GATEWAY_LABEL", "GATEWAY_IMAGE", "GATEWAY_NETWORK",
"GATEWAY_CA_CERT", "GATEWAY_CA_GLOB",
]