Joseph Doherty
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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).
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# ClusterClient → gRPC migration — live gate results
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Rig: `docker/` (2 central + 3×2 site + traefik), rebuilt from the branch under test via
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`bash docker/deploy.sh`. Recorded check-by-check in the family's live-gate format. Phase 5's
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full eight-check gate is recorded further down as those phases land; this file starts with
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Phase 0, whose DoD has its own smaller gate.
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---
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## Phase 0 — PSK auth + dead-code removal — **PASS** (2026-07-22)
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Branch `feat/grpc-phase0-psk` @ `228ff8b4`. Image rebuilt, all 9 containers recreated.
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### Baseline (pre-change build, same rig)
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An unauthenticated call from the host to a site's audit-pull RPC was **accepted**:
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```
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$ grpcurl -plaintext -d '{"batch_size":1}' localhost:9023 sitestream.SiteStreamService/PullAuditEvents
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{}
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```
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That is the gap Phase 0 closes, reproduced rather than assumed.
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### Checks
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| # | Check | Result |
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| 1 | All 8 nodes boot with keys configured (new `StartupValidator` rule) | **PASS** — all recreated and reached ready |
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| 2 | Unauthenticated `PullAuditEvents` ⇒ `PermissionDenied`, all 3 sites | **PASS** |
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| 3 | Wrong key (site-b's key presented to site-a) ⇒ `PermissionDenied` | **PASS** — per-site scoping is real, not decorative |
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| 4 | Correct key ⇒ success, all 3 sites | **PASS** |
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| 5 | Central's own authenticated paths still work | **PASS** — 14 successful `PullAuditEvents` from central to site-a; **0** auth failures in either central's log |
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| 6 | LocalDb sync unaffected by the new interceptor | **PASS** — **0** control-plane rejections and **0** sync auth failures on the passive peer; session connected after one boot-order retry |
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| 7 | No interceptor-activation errors | **PASS** — 0 (see the defect below) |
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Evidence for 2–4:
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```
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=== NO CREDENTIALS ===
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:9023 -> ERROR: Code: PermissionDenied Message: Control plane authentication failed.
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:9033 -> ERROR: Code: PermissionDenied Message: Control plane authentication failed.
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:9043 -> ERROR: Code: PermissionDenied Message: Control plane authentication failed.
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=== WRONG KEY (site-b's key against site-a) ===
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:9023 -> ERROR: Code: PermissionDenied Message: Control plane authentication failed.
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=== CORRECT KEY ===
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site-a :9023 -> {}
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site-b :9033 -> {}
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site-c :9043 -> {}
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```
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Site-a rejected exactly **2** calls — the two deliberate probes above — and nothing else.
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### Defect the gate caught that the test suite did not
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**First run of this gate FAILED**, and is worth recording because the failure mode is
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deceptive.
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`Grpc.AspNetCore` activates a type-registered interceptor through
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`InterceptorRegistration.GetFactory()`, which throws when more than one public constructor is
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applicable. `ControlPlaneAuthInterceptor` shipped with two — the DI one and a prefix-set
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overload intended for later phases.
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The throw happens **inside the pipeline, per call**, so:
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- nothing failed at startup; the node booted, joined its pair and reported healthy;
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- every gated call died with `Unknown / "Exception was thrown by handler"`, which reads as a
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handler bug rather than an auth bug;
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- **correct key, wrong key and no key produced identical errors** — the tell. A gate that
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cannot distinguish those is not authenticating anything.
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Site-a's log at the time: three `PullAuditEvents` calls, three identical
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`System.InvalidOperationException: Multiple constructors accepting all given argument types
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have been found in type 'ControlPlaneAuthInterceptor'`.
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The full suite was green when this shipped — **29 suites, 6,872 tests, 0 failures**. The
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in-process end-to-end test missed it because it registered the interceptor with
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`AddSingleton` alongside `AddGrpc`, so DI returned the instance and gRPC's activation path
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never ran.
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Fixed in `228ff8b4`: the prefix-set constructor is `internal`; the end-to-end harness now
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registers exactly as `Program.cs` does (by type, not in DI); and a reflection assertion pins
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"exactly one public constructor", since that is the actual invariant.
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**Lesson for phases 1A/1B, which both add services to this interceptor:** extend
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`DefaultGatedPrefixes`; do not add a second public constructor. And any in-process harness for
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a DI-activated component must mirror the production registration shape or it proves less than
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it appears to.
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### Not covered by this gate
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- Streaming subscriptions were exercised in-process (TestServer), not over the rig. The
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interceptor is path-scoped, not method-scoped, so the rig's `PullAuditEvents` evidence covers
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the same code path — but a live `SubscribeInstance` under load is untested here.
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- Key **rotation** on a live pair.
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- `docker-env2` was updated with its own key but not redeployed or gated.
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