Phase 0's gate doc now carries the full suite picture, not just the rig checks.
Playwright: 170 pass / 2 fail / 1 skip of 173. Both failures were run down to
root cause and both are pre-existing on main, unrelated to this branch (which
touches no EF, CentralUI, Transport or ManagementService file):
- TransportImportTests is a REAL production bug: BundleImporter.cs:1298 opens a
user-initiated transaction while the central context has EnableRetryOnFailure,
so SqlServerRetryingExecutionStrategy refuses the split query inside it and
bundle import fails against real MS SQL. The unit/integration suite cannot see
it -- the in-memory EF provider has no retrying strategy and BeginTransaction
is a no-op there.
- SmsNotificationE2ETests is a stale fixture: SID 'ACtest123' (2026-06-19) vs the
^AC[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$ guard added 2026-07-10 (40088a21). Failing since then, which
has also silenced everything after the toast assertion -- including the
secret-non-leak check on the Auth Token.
Also records that the earlier 44-failure run is void: a concurrent deploy.sh was
recreating the cluster underneath it.
Neither is fixed here; both are out of scope for a PSK-auth branch.
The gate's first run failed on a defect the green suite could not see: two public
constructors on ControlPlaneAuthInterceptor made Grpc.AspNetCore's activation
throw per call, so correct key, wrong key and no key all produced identical
errors. Recorded in full because the symptom (Unknown / "Exception was thrown by
handler") points at the handler, not at auth, and because phases 1A/1B both add
services to this same interceptor — they must extend DefaultGatedPrefixes rather
than add a second public constructor.
Also records what the gate does NOT cover: live streaming under load, key
rotation on a running pair, and docker-env2 (keyed but neither redeployed nor
gated).
Phase 0 of the ClusterClient→gRPC migration
(docs/plans/2026-07-22-clusterclient-to-grpc-plan.md). Standalone hardening: it
closes a gap that exists today and is a precondition for moving command/control
onto gRPC in later phases.
T0.1 — delete the ManagementActor ClusterClientReceptionist registration.
It was built for an out-of-cluster CLI that was never written: the shipped CLI
speaks HTTP Basic to /management, which asks the actor in-process through
ManagementActorHolder. Nothing in the repo ever sent to /user/management. The
actor still runs there; only the cross-boundary advertisement is gone. Six
documents claimed the CLI used ClusterClient — including the CLI's own README
"Architecture Notes" — and are corrected here rather than left to rot.
T0.2 — record, do not port, the dead integration-routing path.
IntegrationCallRequest is unwired at BOTH ends: RouteIntegrationCallAsync has
zero callers anywhere, and RegisterLocalHandler(Integration, …) appears only in
a test, so production always answers "Integration handler not available". It is
excluded from the gRPC contract (28 of 29 commands migrate) rather than
enshrined on an additive-only wire format, and deleting it during a
transport migration would mix a behavioural change into a change whose whole
value is that behaviour is identical. See
docs/known-issues/2026-07-22-integration-call-routing-is-dead-code.md.
T0.3 — preshared-key authentication on SiteStreamService.
The service shipped with no auth at all: plaintext h2c, no interceptor, so
anything that could reach a site node's :8083 could open a live data stream or
read audit rows back via PullAuditEvents/PullSiteCalls. ControlPlaneAuthInterceptor
now gates /sitestream.SiteStreamService/ — modeled on LocalDbSyncAuthInterceptor
(constant-time compare, fail-closed, PermissionDenied) but gating a SET of
service prefixes so phases 1A/1B add services rather than interceptors. LocalDb
sync keeps its own separate key: it authenticates the pair partner, not central,
and collapsing the two would make a site's central-facing key also admit writes
into its database.
Keys are per site (SB-GRPC-PSK-<siteId>), never fleet-wide, so a compromised
site yields only its own. Central attaches them through ControlPlaneCredentials,
which binds CallCredentials to the channel — covering unary and streaming
uniformly, and letting the key resolve asynchronously, which a client
interceptor could not do without blocking. All three central→site channel
creation sites go through it (SiteStreamGrpcClient and both audit pull invokers);
the pull invokers' channel caches are re-keyed by (site, endpoint) because
credentials are per-site and bound to the channel.
Two decisions beyond the plan:
* StartupValidator now requires GrpcPsk on Site nodes. The plan specified only
the runtime gate, but fail-closed with no boot check produces a node that
joins, answers heartbeats and reports healthy while refusing every stream,
audit pull and telemetry ingest — silent and total. Same reasoning as the
existing inbound API-key pepper rule.
* Added Communication:SitePsks as a central-side key map. The plan assumed
central would read the store, seeded via a dev KEK; the docker rig
deliberately boots with no master key, so store-only resolution would leave
it unable to dial its own sites. The store stays primary — it is the only
source that can serve a site added at runtime — with the map covering
key-less hosts and one-off pins. Neither source falling back to
"unauthenticated" is the invariant.
T0.4 — dev keys on both rigs and tests.
34 tests. The seven that matter most exercise a real in-process gRPC stack over
TestServer: the unit tests on either side of the wire would both stay green if
the halves disagreed, and gRPC refuses call credentials on a plaintext channel
by default — the UnsafeUseInsecureChannelCallCredentials opt-in is only provable
by making a real call. They confirm correct key passes on unary AND streaming,
wrong key and no-credentials both get PermissionDenied, and an unresolvable key
fails the call with nothing reaching the service.
OPERATIONAL: a site node upgraded to this build without a key will not boot.
That includes the gitignored deploy/wonder-app-vd03/ overlay.
Joseph Doherty