rshen/Letmein was a live, checked-in cluster_admin credential in
auth.yaml. Renamed to a non-identifying username with a clearly-marked
placeholder password.
docs: add full ops deployment guide (src/docs/deployment.md)
Covers building and running all four daemons plus xceadmin, based on
direct source verification (CLI flags, config file shapes, TLS posture)
and a live single-node deploy. Documents real production gaps (no
process supervision, plaintext non-controller traffic, exposed dev
creds) rather than treating the repo as a finished runbook.
admin-config-tool's spec.json blocked_on and tasks.md both still described
the OP_upgradeConfig dispatch-gate defect as an open blocker. It was fixed
2026-07-25 (bug-1468, commit 959b0cda) by config-upgrade-snapshot task 8.6,
which independently hit the same wall building a live OP_upgradeConfig
sender -- the fix's own comment in cluster.c already cross-references this
spec. The controller-side path has since been exercised live and
successfully many times via config-upgrade-snapshot's --config-upgrade
soak. All 23 admin-config-tool tasks are already [x]; this was pure
tracking-metadata debt, not a reopened implementation gap.
Also appends a cross-spec gap analysis (admin-config-tool x
config-upgrade-snapshot x clusterconfig-schema-split) to all three specs'
research.md, confirming clean schema integration between the latter two
and flagging the one remaining real gap: a new commit-timeout issue in
config-upgrade-snapshot task 8.6's force-elect step, surfaced now that
bug-1477 is fixed, not yet root-caused.
deploy-ha.sh no longer takes a <data-dir> argument or --build-config
flag. Every deploy now generates a fresh self-signed TLS cert/key
(openssl, RSA 2048, 10y validity) directly into the deploy dir's
certs/, and builds cluster.bin directly into controller/ctrl-1/conf/
via xceadmin -- no intermediate staging directory, nothing preserved
across runs. run-ha-soak.sh (/xce-test-ha) updated to match: dropped
its own XCE_HA_DATADIR-based precondition entirely. Updated 4 callers
(run-ha-soak.sh, test-heartbeat-tolerance.sh, test-commit-durability.sh,
both xce-deploy-ha/xce-test-ha SKILL.md docs).
Separately: xcecommon.wire.connect() was loading a client-side TLS
cert, diverging from the real reference client -- netio.c's
create_ssl_context() presents no certificate at all when acting as a
client (cert_file/key_file both NULL, bare TLS_client_method()).
Fixed connect() to match, and since nothing else consumed cert_dir
(verify_mode=CERT_NONE throughout, no CA check either), removed it
end-to-end: discovery.follow_redirects(), push.push_config()/
probe_config(), and the --cert-dir CLI flag.
Server-side cert loading (mock TLS test servers) is unaffected --
moved into a shared session-scoped tls_certs fixture (new
tests/conftest.py, openssl-generated) replacing 3 duplicated
REPO_HA_DATA_DIR/skipif blocks. Net result: those tests no longer skip
under a hermetic nix build sandbox (which never had ha/data/) --
verified 165/165 passed, 0 skipped, via both meson compile and a full
nix build --option sandbox false .#xcecore_debug rebuild (previously
128 passed / 37 skipped there).
ha/data/{xce.crt,xce.key} removed from git tracking. Requirements
2.3/2.4 and 8.3/8.4/8.5 marked superseded in requirements.md with
dated correction notes.
Reopens the 2026-07-21 design decision to keep xceadmin outside meson.
Standard onboarding consistency (README 3.3 `nix build .#xcecore` and
3.4 `meson compile` working for xceadmin like every other component)
outweighs the earlier concern about meson's single-artifact model not
fitting a multi-file pip install.
- src/xceadmin/meson.build: custom_target() wrapping install+test,
stamp-file output, build_always_stale (matches this repo's existing
clean-rebuild-every-invocation convention).
- src/xceadmin/meson-build.sh: out-of-tree pinned install + pytest;
stages a repo-mirror/ symlink tree so tests' fixed-relative-path
assumptions (src/configs/, src/schema/, ha/data/) still resolve from
a copied location, without touching their deliberate fail-loud
behavior.
- src/meson.build: subdir('xceadmin') under component != 'xcecli'.
- src/tools/xce-build.sh: xceadmin case now delegates to
`meson compile -C "$BUILD_DIR" xceadmin` instead of its own
pip/venv implementation, like every other component.
Verified both build paths: meson compile (165/165 passed) and
nix build --option sandbox false .#xcecore_debug (128 passed / 37
skipped — cert-dependent tests correctly skip under nix's
git-tracked-only hermetic source). AppImage bundling (README 3.5)
is explicitly deferred to future work, not part of this change.
push_config()/probe_config(): build/send Request{opcode:upgradeConfig}
and the direct-struct ProbeConfigTagRequest respectively, following
redirects to the primary for the former (ProbeConfigTagReply has no
redirect fields, so probe_config connects directly). Maps controller
status/reply-variant failures to typed results/errors. Tested against
a real local TLS mock controller built from the bundled schema, since
neither opcode has a live controller-side handler today (separately
documented, unrelated to this task).
Unblocked mid-task by bug-1461 (commit e53c086): controller.capnp had
a struct-name collision that miscompiled UpgradeConfigRequest.sha256/
.bytes, making this task's core request impossible to construct via
pycapnp until fixed at the schema root.
