Authenticate Scout and DPU-agent with self-signed bearer JWTs - #4718
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WalkthroughThis change adds node-auth JWT support across API validation, authentication middleware, Scout, DPU-agent, Forge clients, FMDS, Helm deployment, CA publication, and Unix-socket token brokering. Machine mTLS remains the default. ChangesNode-authentication contracts and validation
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Mergeability Score: ⚪ Minimal · up to The PR adds optional bearer-JWT authentication while preserving the existing default behavior; the remaining issues are limited to documentation accuracy, with no actionable merge-blocking product or production risk. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant FMDS
participant SocketTokenSource
participant AgentLocalAPI
participant NodeJwtMinter
participant ForgeAPI
FMDS->>SocketTokenSource: request cached node token
SocketTokenSource->>AgentLocalAPI: GetNodeToken over Unix socket
AgentLocalAPI->>NodeJwtMinter: request current JWT
NodeJwtMinter-->>AgentLocalAPI: return JWT and expiry
AgentLocalAPI-->>SocketTokenSource: return token response
SocketTokenSource-->>FMDS: provide bearer token
FMDS->>ForgeAPI: send HTTPS request with bearer token
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crates/agent/src/lib.rs (1)
366-381: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winGate the node-auth provider or document the TLS migration.
with_token_providerenforces TLS, andForgeTlsClient::buildrejects non-HTTPS URLs when a provider is present unlessDISABLE_TLS_ENFORCEMENTis set. The provider is attached even when[node_auth]is disabled, so plaintext deployments, including the example configuration, fail when they build a Forge client. Tests mask this withDISABLE_TLS_ENFORCEMENT. Gate the provider on node-auth configuration, or document this breaking change and update plaintext configurations.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@crates/agent/src/lib.rs` around lines 366 - 381, The Forge client always attaches the node-auth token provider, causing plaintext deployments to fail when node authentication is disabled. Update the ForgeClientConfig construction around NodeJwtMinter and with_token_provider to add the provider only when the agent’s node-auth configuration is enabled; otherwise preserve the client configuration without a token provider.
🧹 Nitpick comments (7)
crates/api-core/src/node_auth.rs (1)
53-60: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winRestrict these declarations to the crate.
node_authis a private module. The supplied production caller is insidecrates/api-core. Changepubtopub(crate)forNodeAuthError,NodeJwtValidator, andfrom_root_ca_fileunless an external caller requires wider visibility.As per coding guidelines, “keep declarations private by default, widening visibility only for actual callers.”
Also applies to: 99-131
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@crates/api-core/src/node_auth.rs` around lines 53 - 60, Restrict the node authentication API to crate visibility: change NodeAuthError, NodeJwtValidator, and the from_root_ca_file method to pub(crate), preserving their existing behavior and signatures otherwise. Do not widen visibility unless an actual external caller requires it.Sources: Coding guidelines, Path instructions
crates/api-core/src/cfg/file.rs (2)
1985-1985: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winConsider
deny_unknown_fieldsonNodeAuthConfig.
SecretsConfigandCertificatesConfigin this file use#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)], and this file already carries tests asserting that a misspelled key fails to parse.[node_auth]has no such guard. A typo such asmtls_enabld = falseparses cleanly and leaves machine mTLS enabled, so the operator's intent to disable it is discarded without any signal.♻️ Proposed change
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, Deserialize)] +#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, Deserialize)] +#[serde(deny_unknown_fields)] pub struct NodeAuthConfig {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@crates/api-core/src/cfg/file.rs` at line 1985, Update the NodeAuthConfig definition to add Serde’s deny_unknown_fields guard, matching SecretsConfig and CertificatesConfig. Extend the existing configuration parsing tests to verify that an unknown or misspelled [node_auth] key is rejected.
3711-3727: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueConsider a scenario table for the validation cases.
The test invokes
validate()three times with differentNodeAuthConfiginputs. The repository convention prefers a table in this shape.Based on path instructions: "Use a table whenever two or more tests invoke the same operation with different inputs, but keep genuinely distinct tests standalone."
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@crates/api-core/src/cfg/file.rs` around lines 3711 - 3727, Refactor node_auth_rejects_all_methods_disabled into a scenario table covering both methods disabled, default configuration, and JWT-only configuration. Iterate over the cases and assert each NodeAuthConfig.validate() result against its expected outcome, preserving the existing assertions and test coverage.Source: Path instructions
crates/authn/src/middleware.rs (3)
683-698: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winSuppressed machine certificates are invisible to metrics.
Trace the counting path.
rejectionscollects onlyErrresults fromtry_from_client_certificate. A machine certificate that maps successfully and is then dropped by this filter adds nothing toprincipalsand nothing torejections. At line 700 the request satisfiesprincipals.len() == minted_before, butrejections.first()isNone, soClientCertRejectednever fires.The consequence: after an operator sets
mtls_enabled = false, a node that has not yet migrated to bearer tokens loses its identity with only a per-request DEBUG line as evidence. No counter moves. The cutover is the exact moment when an operator needs a signal that machine certificates are still arriving.Consider emitting an Event with a bounded label for the suppression, so the remaining mTLS population is measurable before and during the cutover. This is deployment-safety tooling rather than a correctness fix, so it can also be deferred to a follow-up.
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@crates/authn/src/middleware.rs` around lines 683 - 698, The machine-certificate suppression in the principal filtering path is not reflected in rejection metrics. Update the filter around try_from_client_certificate and the subsequent ClientCertRejected handling to emit a measurable Event with a bounded label whenever a SpiffeMachineIdentifier is dropped because machine_certs_enabled is false, while preserving the existing filtering behavior.
1001-1012: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winThe bearer service-identity arm has no test.
The tests exercise
Ok(SpiffeIdClass::Machine(_))thoroughly. The sibling arm at line 632, which producesPrincipal::SpiffeServiceIdentifier, is never reached by any test. A regression that swapped the two arms would pass the current suite.
spiffe_context()already declares/carbide-system/sa/as a service base path, so the addition is a single test using a service URI inFakeAuth.I can generate the test if that is useful.
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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@crates/authn/src/middleware.rs` around lines 1001 - 1012, Add a test alongside valid_bearer_token_yields_machine_principal covering a bearer token authenticated by FakeAuth with a service URI under the /carbide-system/sa/ base path. Assert principals_for returns Principal::SpiffeServiceIdentifier for the expected service identity, exercising the bearer service-identity branch.
57-65: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueConsider narrowing the visibility of the two new fields.
with_bearer_authenticatorandwith_machine_certs_enabledare the only paths the listener uses to set these values. Thepubfields therefore widen the surface beyond the actual callers and permit a caller to bypass the builders. The pre-existingpubfields set a precedent, so this is a judgement call rather than a defect.As per coding guidelines: "Use the narrowest Rust visibility required by actual callers; do not use
pubto suppress dead-code warnings or widen production visibility solely for unit tests."🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@crates/authn/src/middleware.rs` around lines 57 - 65, Restrict the visibility of the new bearer_authenticator and machine_certs_enabled fields to the narrowest scope required by their callers, removing pub if external access is unnecessary. Keep with_bearer_authenticator and with_machine_certs_enabled as the supported configuration paths, and preserve the existing behavior and visibility of unrelated fields.Source: Coding guidelines
crates/agent/src/command_line.rs (1)
28-36: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winConsider hosting this validator once in the
rpccrate.
crates/scout/src/cfg/command_line.rsLines 31-36 contain a byte-identicalnon_blank_audience. Both crates already depend onrpc, which ownsNODE_JWT_AUDIENCE. Placing the validator beside that constant keeps the two flags on one rule and prevents divergence when the rule changes, for example the trimming fix above.Based on learnings from the coding guidelines: "Prefer simple, explicit Rust code" and reuse before new code per the shared Engineering Guidelines.
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@crates/agent/src/command_line.rs` around lines 28 - 36, Move the shared non_blank_audience validator from the command-line crates into the rpc crate alongside NODE_JWT_AUDIENCE, expose it for reuse, and update both crates’ command-line argument definitions to reference that single implementation. Remove the duplicate local validators while preserving rejection of empty or whitespace-only values and the existing error behavior.Source: Coding guidelines
🤖 Prompt for all review comments with AI agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.
Inline comments:
In `@crates/agent/src/command_line.rs`:
- Around line 31-36: Update non_blank_audience to return the trimmed audience
value after validation instead of the original input, so NodeJwtMinter produces
an aud claim matching the configured [node_auth] audience.
In `@crates/api-core/src/cfg/file.rs`:
- Around line 2025-2027: Update the audience handling in validate so the value
used by NodeJwtValidator::from_root_ca_file and Validation::set_audience is
normalized by trimming surrounding whitespace, or reject any value with leading
or trailing whitespace if validate must retain its &self signature. Preserve the
existing empty-audience error behavior.
In `@crates/api-core/src/dpf_services.rs`:
- Around line 692-707: Derive an effective, validated bearer-authentication
configuration before mandatory_services uses NodeAuthConfig, requiring TLS
termination and a non-whitespace audience; use it consistently for
dpu_agent_service and fmds_service. Update crates/api-core/src/dpf_services.rs
lines 692-707 accordingly,
bluefield/charts/nico-dpu-agent/templates/daemonset.yaml lines 134-139 to render
an optional validated audience only, and
bluefield/charts/nico-fmds/templates/daemonset.yaml lines 56-98 to enable token
mode only from that effective state. Document or reject the TLS requirement in
bluefield/charts/nico-fmds/values.yaml lines 16-26, and add configuration
scenarios covering enabled bearer auth with plaintext TLS and disabled auth with
whitespace-only audience.
In `@crates/api-core/src/listener.rs`:
- Around line 486-548: Update the refresh flow around
node_jwt_validator.refresh_roots and get_tls_acceptor so both refreshed trust
configurations are prepared before either is committed; retain the previous JWT
roots and TLS acceptor whenever either refresh fails, including TLS rebuild
failure after successful JWT reload. Ensure the next retry can rebuild both
together, and add coverage for this failure sequence.
- Around line 353-356: Update listener startup around get_tls_acceptor and the
node_jwt_validator match to build and validate the initial TLS acceptor before
installing bearer authentication. When node authentication is enabled, fail
startup if the acceptor cannot be created; only apply with_bearer_authenticator
when that usable acceptor exists, not merely when tls_config is present. Add
coverage using a valid root CA and an unreadable identity key to verify startup
failure and no plaintext bearer-authenticated listener.
In `@crates/host-support/src/agent_config.rs`:
- Around line 1128-1140: Update the test around ForgeSystemConfig::validate to
use the repository’s table-test helper, preferably check_cases or scenarios!
with Outcome, instead of manually looping over blank values. Represent the
empty, whitespace, and tab inputs as table cases while preserving the expected
validation error and node-auth-audience assertion.
In `@crates/rpc/src/forge_tls_client.rs`:
- Around line 100-105: Require any client configured with node_token_provider to
have enforce_tls enabled, unless DISABLE_TLS_ENFORCEMENT is set; apply this
validation across direct construction, with_token_provider, and HTTPS connection
setup so later mutation cannot bypass it. Preserve existing behavior for
non-token clients, and add a regression test that directly constructs a token
client with enforce_tls false and verifies it is rejected.
In `@rest-api/proto/core/src/v1/agent_local_nico.proto`:
- Around line 23-27: Update the GetNodeToken RPC documentation to state that the
agent may return a cached token and define the renewal threshold at which it
mints a fresh token. Clarify the remaining-validity guarantee callers can rely
on when choosing their refresh interval.
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Outside diff comments:
In `@crates/agent/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 366-381: The Forge client always attaches the node-auth token
provider, causing plaintext deployments to fail when node authentication is
disabled. Update the ForgeClientConfig construction around NodeJwtMinter and
with_token_provider to add the provider only when the agent’s node-auth
configuration is enabled; otherwise preserve the client configuration without a
token provider.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/agent/src/command_line.rs`:
- Around line 28-36: Move the shared non_blank_audience validator from the
command-line crates into the rpc crate alongside NODE_JWT_AUDIENCE, expose it
for reuse, and update both crates’ command-line argument definitions to
reference that single implementation. Remove the duplicate local validators
while preserving rejection of empty or whitespace-only values and the existing
error behavior.
In `@crates/api-core/src/cfg/file.rs`:
- Line 1985: Update the NodeAuthConfig definition to add Serde’s
deny_unknown_fields guard, matching SecretsConfig and CertificatesConfig. Extend
the existing configuration parsing tests to verify that an unknown or misspelled
[node_auth] key is rejected.
- Around line 3711-3727: Refactor node_auth_rejects_all_methods_disabled into a
scenario table covering both methods disabled, default configuration, and
JWT-only configuration. Iterate over the cases and assert each
NodeAuthConfig.validate() result against its expected outcome, preserving the
existing assertions and test coverage.
In `@crates/api-core/src/node_auth.rs`:
- Around line 53-60: Restrict the node authentication API to crate visibility:
change NodeAuthError, NodeJwtValidator, and the from_root_ca_file method to
pub(crate), preserving their existing behavior and signatures otherwise. Do not
widen visibility unless an actual external caller requires it.
In `@crates/authn/src/middleware.rs`:
- Around line 683-698: The machine-certificate suppression in the principal
filtering path is not reflected in rejection metrics. Update the filter around
try_from_client_certificate and the subsequent ClientCertRejected handling to
emit a measurable Event with a bounded label whenever a SpiffeMachineIdentifier
is dropped because machine_certs_enabled is false, while preserving the existing
filtering behavior.
- Around line 1001-1012: Add a test alongside
valid_bearer_token_yields_machine_principal covering a bearer token
authenticated by FakeAuth with a service URI under the /carbide-system/sa/ base
path. Assert principals_for returns Principal::SpiffeServiceIdentifier for the
expected service identity, exercising the bearer service-identity branch.
- Around line 57-65: Restrict the visibility of the new bearer_authenticator and
machine_certs_enabled fields to the narrowest scope required by their callers,
removing pub if external access is unnecessary. Keep with_bearer_authenticator
and with_machine_certs_enabled as the supported configuration paths, and
preserve the existing behavior and visibility of unrelated fields.
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crates/host-support/src/agent_config.rs (2)
152-159: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win
validatecovers the audience but leaveslocal_api_socketunchecked.Both new fields can reach a runtime that cannot report the mistake well. A blank or whitespace-only
local_api_socketreacheslocal_api::serve, whereUnixListener::bindfails; the agent's broker task then logs a warning and retries every ten seconds for the process lifetime, and co-located services fall back to their own credentials without an operator-facing cause. The same function that already prevents the silent audience lockout can prevent this one.🛡️ Suggested addition
pub fn validate(&self) -> Result<(), String> { if self.node_auth_audience.trim().is_empty() { return Err( "forge-system.node-auth-audience: must not be empty or whitespace-only".to_string(), ); } + if self.local_api_socket.trim().is_empty() { + return Err( + "forge-system.local-api-socket: must not be empty or whitespace-only".to_string(), + ); + } Ok(()) }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@crates/host-support/src/agent_config.rs` around lines 152 - 159, Update AgentConfig::validate to reject local_api_socket values that are empty or whitespace-only, returning a clear configuration error consistent with the existing node_auth_audience validation while preserving the successful Ok path for valid values.
121-140: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winTwo independent copies of the audience trimming rule now exist in two crates.
trimmed_node_auth_audiencehere is byte-identical in behavior totrimmed_audienceincrates/api-core/src/cfg/file.rsat lines 2059-2065. The doc comment states the requirement precisely:audis compared verbatim, so every path that carries the value must normalize the same way. Two copies make that invariant depend on a reviewer noticing both sites. If one copy later gains, for example, Unicode whitespace handling or case folding, the divergence rejects every token in the fleet and the symptom points nowhere near the change.Both crates already depend on
carbide-rpc, which ownsNODE_JWT_AUDIENCE. Consider placing the single normalizer beside that constant and using it from both configuration paths.♻️ Suggested consolidation
Add to
crates/rpc/src/node_jwt.rs, next toNODE_JWT_AUDIENCE:/// Normalizes a configured node-auth audience. `aud` is compared verbatim, so /// every path that carries the value must normalize identically. pub fn normalize_audience(audience: &str) -> String { audience.trim().to_string() } /// Serde adapter for `normalize_audience`. pub fn deserialize_audience<'de, D>(deserializer: D) -> Result<String, D::Error> where D: serde::Deserializer<'de>, { use serde::Deserialize as _; Ok(normalize_audience(&String::deserialize(deserializer)?)) }Then in this file:
#[serde( default = "default_node_auth_audience", - deserialize_with = "trimmed_node_auth_audience" + deserialize_with = "::rpc::node_jwt::deserialize_audience" )] pub node_auth_audience: String,-/// Trims `[forge-system] node-auth-audience` as it is read, so the value -/// [`ForgeSystemConfig::validate`] checks is the value the minter stamps. -fn trimmed_node_auth_audience<'de, D>(deserializer: D) -> Result<String, D::Error> -where - D: serde::Deserializer<'de>, -{ - use serde::Deserialize as _; - Ok(String::deserialize(deserializer)?.trim().to_string()) -}Apply the same substitution to
trimmed_audienceincrates/api-core/src/cfg/file.rs.Also applies to: 193-209
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@crates/host-support/src/agent_config.rs` around lines 121 - 140, Consolidate audience normalization around the shared NODE_JWT_AUDIENCE symbol by adding reusable normalize_audience and deserialize_audience helpers in the RPC node_jwt module. Update the agent configuration’s serde adapter trimmed_node_auth_audience and the API configuration’s trimmed_audience to use the shared deserializer, removing their duplicated trimming implementations while preserving identical normalization behavior.crates/api-core/src/listener.rs (1)
578-584: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winThe failure log is filed under node-auth even when node-auth is not configured.
When
node_jwt_validatorisNone,rebuilt_jwt_rootsisOk(None), so this arm is reached only because the TLS acceptor rebuild failed. The record is then emitted withtarget: "node_auth"and states that the "token trust anchors" could not be rebuilt, although no token trust anchors exist in that deployment. An operator investigating a certificate rotation failure would not look under the node-auth target.Consider selecting the target and wording from whether a validator is present.
♻️ Proposed adjustment
(acceptor, roots) => { // Come back sooner than the rotation cadence, but // on a timer rather than on the next connection: // the previous pair is still serving, so there is // no urgency worth spending a rebuild per inbound // connection on while the files stay broken. tls_refresh_after = TLS_REFRESH_RETRY_DELAY; - tracing::error!( - target: "node_auth", - tls_acceptor_rebuilt = acceptor.is_some(), - jwt_roots_rebuilt = roots.is_ok(), - "node-auth: could not rebuild both the TLS acceptor and the \ - token trust anchors; keeping the previous pair and retrying" - ); + tracing::error!( + node_auth_enabled = node_jwt_validator.is_some(), + tls_acceptor_rebuilt = acceptor.is_some(), + jwt_roots_rebuilt = roots.is_ok(), + "could not rebuild the TLS acceptor and, when node-auth is \ + enabled, the token trust anchors; keeping the previous \ + configuration and retrying" + ); }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@crates/api-core/src/listener.rs` around lines 578 - 584, Update the error logging branch around the TLS acceptor and JWT roots rebuild to select the target and message based on whether node_jwt_validator is present: use node-auth wording only when token trust anchors are configured, and TLS/certificate-rotation wording otherwise. Preserve the existing rebuild status fields and retry behavior.crates/authn/src/middleware.rs (1)
615-658: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winCache validated bearer tokens with trust-state invalidation.
Service::callperforms synchronous bearer validation on every request carrying a bearer token.NodeJwtValidatorhas no cache. Add a bounded positive cache keyed by the token. Limit each entry by the tokenexpand leaf-certificate validity, and invalidate entries wheninstall_rootsreplaces the trust roots.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@crates/authn/src/middleware.rs` around lines 615 - 658, Update the bearer-authentication path in Service::call to use a bounded positive cache keyed by the bearer token, avoiding repeated synchronous validation. Cache only successful validations, cap each entry’s lifetime by both the token exp and leaf-certificate validity, and clear or invalidate cached entries whenever install_roots replaces the trust roots; preserve the existing SPIFFE principal mapping and failure behavior.docs/design/machine-identity/node-auth-jwt.md (1)
34-34: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftAlign primary headings with the design-document convention.
This document uses unnumbered
##headings for primary sections. The referenced design document uses numbered H1 primary sections with H2/H3 subsections. (github.com) Reformat the primary sections and update internal anchors after changing heading levels.Based on learnings, architecture design documents use a title followed by numbered H1 primary sections, with H2/H3 subsections.
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@docs/design/machine-identity/node-auth-jwt.md` at line 34, Reformat the primary sections in node-auth-jwt.md to use numbered H1 headings beneath the title, preserving H2/H3 levels for subsections. Update all internal links and anchors to match the resulting heading levels and generated identifiers, without changing the document’s content.Sources: Learnings, MCP tools
🤖 Prompt for all review comments with AI agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.
Inline comments:
In `@crates/authn/src/middleware.rs`:
- Around line 705-717: Update the TrustedCertificate suppression logic around
refused_machine_cert so it suppresses the marker only when the refused machine
certificate was the sole presented credential, not merely when principals.len()
equals minted_before. Preserve TrustedCertificate when a valid bearer machine
principal or other valid credential is also present, and add a regression test
covering the mixed bearer-plus-certificate request.
In `@docs/design/machine-identity/node-auth-jwt.md`:
- Around line 118-136: Expand the “Minting the JWT” documentation into an
explicit lifecycle/state transition description covering missing certificates,
certificate/key mismatches, expired or near-expiry cache, broker and
request-deadline failures, CA reload failures, and process restarts. For each
transition, document retry or polling intervals, fallback behavior, recovery
conditions, and whether state is persisted, including all success, skip,
maintenance, error, and persisted-resume paths; apply the same coverage to the
additionally referenced section.
- Around line 346-367: Expand the AgentLocal/GetNodeToken section to fully
specify the service and message contract: request fields, response fields,
expiry handling, empty-cache behavior, ignored current-token input if
applicable, gRPC status codes, deadlines, retries, and concurrent-request
behavior. Add a success/error transition table covering token-cache state
changes, while preserving the existing SocketTokenSource refresh and
non-blocking request semantics.
- Around line 204-225: Expand the `[node_auth]` documentation around the
configuration example to match `NodeAuthConfig::validate`: specify defaults,
trimming and rejection of blank or padded `audience`, handling of
`max_token_ttl_sec = 0`, the upper bound and behavior for values above 86400,
and startup errors for invalid settings. Document precedence and conflict
behavior for scout and agent node-auth audience sources, including fallback
behavior, while preserving the existing TLS preflight and API/node audience
contract.
- Around line 147-148: Update both documentation occurrences describing JWT
claims to state that only exp and aud are validated, iat is required during
NodeClaims deserialization, and iat contributes to the lifetime calculation
without implying it is independently validated. Remove the claim that iat is
enforced by jsonwebtoken or that lifetime checks prevent future or reversed
timestamps.
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In `@crates/api-core/src/listener.rs`:
- Around line 578-584: Update the error logging branch around the TLS acceptor
and JWT roots rebuild to select the target and message based on whether
node_jwt_validator is present: use node-auth wording only when token trust
anchors are configured, and TLS/certificate-rotation wording otherwise. Preserve
the existing rebuild status fields and retry behavior.
In `@crates/authn/src/middleware.rs`:
- Around line 615-658: Update the bearer-authentication path in Service::call to
use a bounded positive cache keyed by the bearer token, avoiding repeated
synchronous validation. Cache only successful validations, cap each entry’s
lifetime by both the token exp and leaf-certificate validity, and clear or
invalidate cached entries whenever install_roots replaces the trust roots;
preserve the existing SPIFFE principal mapping and failure behavior.
In `@crates/host-support/src/agent_config.rs`:
- Around line 152-159: Update AgentConfig::validate to reject local_api_socket
values that are empty or whitespace-only, returning a clear configuration error
consistent with the existing node_auth_audience validation while preserving the
successful Ok path for valid values.
- Around line 121-140: Consolidate audience normalization around the shared
NODE_JWT_AUDIENCE symbol by adding reusable normalize_audience and
deserialize_audience helpers in the RPC node_jwt module. Update the agent
configuration’s serde adapter trimmed_node_auth_audience and the API
configuration’s trimmed_audience to use the shared deserializer, removing their
duplicated trimming implementations while preserving identical normalization
behavior.
In `@docs/design/machine-identity/node-auth-jwt.md`:
- Line 34: Reformat the primary sections in node-auth-jwt.md to use numbered H1
headings beneath the title, preserving H2/H3 levels for subsections. Update all
internal links and anchors to match the resulting heading levels and generated
identifiers, without changing the document’s content.
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This single doc block contains two distinct pieces of documentation with no separator. Lines 136-149 explain why the fallible read is split from
install_rootsand how the listener commits both the TLS acceptor and the verifier from one bundle. Lines 150-152 then state that the function is a test-only convenience and that production usesbuild_roots_from_pem.The consequence is that the authoritative production rationale is attached to a
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The descent loop replaces a non-object parent entry with an empty object at Line 405. The warning at Line 415 only fires when the leaf value differs. If an operator writes
nodeAuth: "carbide-api-eu"as a scalar, ornodeAuth: null, the entire overlay subtree is discarded and no diagnostic is produced. The rendered result is still correct, but the operator receives no signal that the configuration was ignored. This is the same failure mode the function exists to report.Log the discarded parent value, and add a test for the non-object branch, which is currently uncovered by the four new tests.
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if !entry.is_object() { + tracing::warn!( + target: "node_auth", + service, + setting = path.join("."), + discarded = %entry, + "node-auth: discarding a non-object extra_helm_values entry on the path to a \ + value the API owns" + ); *entry = serde_json::json!({}); }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@crates/agent/build.rs`:
- Around line 39-43: Remove the redundant
.protoc_arg("--experimental_allow_proto3_optional") call from all three
tonic_prost_build configuration invocations in the agent build script. Keep the
existing build_server, build_client, and compile_protos behavior unchanged; only
retain an older-compiler compatibility path if it is explicitly required and
documented.
In `@crates/api-core/src/node_auth.rs`:
- Around line 248-249: Rename the rejection variant used by the
X509Certificate::from_der map_err in the node authentication flow from
NotEcCertificate to a name describing an invalid or unparsable leaf certificate,
and update all references to that variant. Do not add key-type validation;
preserve the existing later Claims rejection behavior for non-EC certificates.
- Around line 487-529: Extend the node-auth negative tests around
garbage_and_missing_chain_tokens_are_rejected with a directly encoded ES256
token using the leaf key and x5c chain, but a subject that does not match the
expected SPIFFE identity and claims within the configured lifetime; assert
rejection as RejectReason::SubjectMismatch. Also add a separately signed
non-ES256 token with a valid chain and otherwise valid claims, asserting
rejection as RejectReason::Algorithm to exercise the algorithm pin.
In `@docs/design/machine-identity/node-auth-jwt.md`:
- Line 389: Update the wording near the socket permission description to use the
American English spelling “afterward” instead of “afterwards,” without changing
the surrounding meaning.
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In `@crates/agent/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 468-528: Ensure local_api_task is cleaned up on every exit path:
move its tokio::spawn creation until after the register match succeeds, then
abort and await the handle after tokio::select! completes. Update the cleanup
around main_loop_result so the JoinHandle is joined after cancellation,
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In `@crates/api-core/src/dpf_services.rs`:
- Around line 395-425: Update the parent-descent logic in the loop using `node`,
`entry`, and `parents` to emit a `node_auth` warning before replacing a
non-object parent with `{}`; include the affected setting path and discarded
scalar/null value, while preserving the existing replacement and leaf-value
warning behavior. Add a test covering the non-object parent branch, such as a
scalar or null `nodeAuth` overlay, and assert that the generated result remains
correct and the discarded value is reported.
In `@crates/api-core/src/node_auth.rs`:
- Around line 134-153: Split the doc comments so the listener’s shared-bundle
and atomic-commit rationale is documented on build_roots_from_pem and
install_roots, where that production behavior is implemented. Keep build_roots’s
documentation limited to the one-line test-only convenience note, removing the
production rationale from its #[cfg(test)] comment.
In `@crates/rpc/build.rs`:
- Around line 48-59: Update the agent_local proto generation call to set
build_server based on the CARGO_FEATURE_TEST_SUPPORT environment variable, while
keeping build_client enabled unconditionally. Leave the agent_local module
export in src/protos/mod.rs unconditional, and update fake-agent tests to
require test-support in addition to their existing test configuration or run
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In `@docs/design/machine-identity/node-auth-jwt.md`:
- Around line 185-193: Update the documentation around
ForgeClientConfig::with_node_jwt() to distinguish enabling the bearer-token
provider from sending credentials: Scout and DPU-agent enable the provider
unconditionally, but attach the Authorization header only when a token is
available, preserving the no-header behavior before certificate acquisition or
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NVIDIA#355) Nodes authenticate to the API with short-lived ES256 JWTs signed by the private key of their existing mTLS client certificate, carrying the cert chain in the token's x5c header. The API verifies that chain against the same root CA its TLS listener already trusts and maps the leaf's SPIFFE SAN through the existing SpiffeContext, so the machine principal and RBAC are unchanged. No new key material, no server-side signing key, and no node-auth JWT issued or refreshed by the API — nodes re-mint locally. On a DPU the dpu-agent is the only holder of the machine key for the purpose of authenticating to nico-api. It serves AgentLocal/GetNodeToken over a unix socket, so co-located services get tokens rather than the key: token-mode fmds pods mount that socket plus a trust-anchor directory the agent publishes, and never reference the credentials volume. The socket's directory must be dedicated to it — a real directory this agent owns, created 0700, refused if it holds anything else — since the directory is what closes the window between bind and the socket's own chmod, and only an actual socket is ever unlinked from it. otelcol still mounts the credentials directory: it needs the certificate for TLS client auth to its OTLP gateway, which a bearer token cannot replace. Configuration is [node_auth]: enabled (accept bearer JWTs, requires a TLS listener), mtls_enabled (machine client-cert authn, disableable once the fleet presents tokens), audience and max_token_ttl_sec. Both switches off is rejected at startup. The audience must agree between the API and each node, and every path that carries it — API config, agent config, both CLI flags — trims and validates identically, since `aud` is compared verbatim. fmds token mode follows [node_auth] enabled, so with node-auth off the chart renders as before. fmds_use_node_tokens overrides that when a change has to be staged: the API stops accepting tokens the moment it restarts, while fmds keeps presenting them until DPF has rolled every DaemonSet, so setting it false while enabled is still true moves fmds across first and closes the window. The reverse — true with enabled = false — is refused at startup. Bearer tokens never travel in the clear. A TLS-configured listener whose acceptor cannot be built fails startup rather than serving plaintext, and a failed rebuild keeps the previous acceptor and retries on a bounded delay. The acceptor and the token validator read the same client-CA bundle and are swapped together or not at all, so the two paths cannot trust different generations of it. Clients enforce server-certificate validation whenever a token provider is attached and refuse a non-HTTPS endpoint outright. With mtls_enabled = false a machine certificate authorizes nothing: the machine principal is dropped and the trusted-certificate principal withheld, so the old path closes rather than surviving under another name. Renewal and rotation are covered on both sides: the validator reloads its trust anchors on the listener's refresh, and the minter checks its key against the certified public key before signing, so neither can lock a node out. The machine key is written 0600. Design doc, including the auth-flow walkthrough, the discovery trust boundary node-auth inherits, and the sequence for disabling it: docs/design/machine-identity/node-auth-jwt.md Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Bill Minckler <wminckler@nvidia.com>
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Reviewed the full diff twice — yesterday's revision and today's update — with the verification path (node_auth.rs), minter (node_jwt.rs), middleware, socket broker, and listener rotation read line by line.
Security path checks out: ES256 double-pinned (no alg confusion; HS256-with-valid-chain explicitly tested); identity derived only from the verified leaf's SPIFFE SAN with sub cross-checked; iat required so the bounded-lifetime check can't be dodged; iat > exp rejected before the subtraction; skew reuses jsonwebtoken's leeway so the two tolerances can't drift; bearer-over-plaintext refused at startup on the server and at build time in the client; TLS acceptor and JWT trust anchors rebuilt from a single read of the CA bundle and committed atomically; Unix socket hardening (0700-from-first-instant dir, symlink/shared/foreign-owner refusal, no-delete of non-sockets) is unusually thorough and honestly documents its residual TOCTOU.
Today's update resolved my two structural concerns from the first pass:
- Fixing the audience to a shared constant (and rejecting the old config key as unknown) deletes the entire two-sided-agreement problem — the chart flag plumbing, overlay reassertion, key-name pinning test, and TOML-trim handling all became unnecessary at once. Right call.
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TrustedCertificatealongside the bearer-derived principal closes the authorization-parity gap for token-only clients, while the refused-machine-cert suppression still keepsmtls_enabled = falsefrom being cosmetic — and the updated tests pin all four quadrants (valid/rejected token × enabled/disabled certs).
Test coverage is exceptional throughout — every security property has a test that would catch its regression, including the pre-chmod socket-mode race, poisoned-lock behavior in both directions with reasoning for why they differ, and Debug redaction of live tokens.
Approving; the two inline comments are non-blocking observations.
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Non-blocking observation: any client that can reach the TLS port can present arbitrary x5c chains, paying you base64-decode + webpki path-building + ECDSA verify per request before rejection. It's bounded by gRPC message limits and comparable to TLS-handshake cost, so fine as-is — but if it ever shows up in a profile, an early cap on chain length (e.g. reject x5c longer than 4 certs before building) is a one-line mitigation. Same note for a future optimization: results aren't cached, so a hot node re-verifies chain + signature per request even though tokens are reused for ~4 minutes by design; a small (token → spiffe, exp) cache would amortize it if needed.
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will do a follow up for both issues.
| /// another on the token path — nor drop the acceptor and serve plaintext | ||
| /// while bearer auth stays armed. A failed build leaves the previous | ||
| /// verifier in place: a half-written bundle must not disarm node auth. | ||
| /// Test-only convenience. Production goes through |
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Cosmetic: this doc block reads as two paragraphs merged during a refactor — "…a half-written bundle must not disarm node auth." runs straight into "Test-only convenience." The first paragraph describes the production refresh contract (it seems to belong on build_roots_from_pem/install_roots), while only the last two lines describe this #[cfg(test)] helper.
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Scout and the DPU-agent authenticate to the API with mTLS client certificates,
which means every process that needs to call the API must hold the machine's
private key. On a DPU that includes co-located DPF services such as fmds, so
the key gets mounted into more containers than strictly need it. Removing the
per-node key entirely is a longer road; this is the step that stops it from
spreading, and starts moving node auth off mTLS.
Nodes now sign short-lived (5 minute) ES256 JWTs with the private key of the
mTLS client certificate they already have, and carry the certificate chain in
the token's
x5cheader. The API verifies that chain against the same root CAits TLS listener already trusts for client certs, verifies the signature with
the verified leaf's key, enforces
exp/iat/audplus a bounded lifetime,and maps the leaf's SPIFFE URI SAN through the same
SpiffeContextas mTLScerts. A JWT and a client cert for the same machine therefore produce a
byte-identical principal, and RBAC is untouched.
There is no server-side signing key, no key storage, and no issuance or refresh
RPCs. Clients re-mint locally, and key rotation rides the existing
client-certificate renewal. The alternatives this displaces — a server-issued
design, a JWKS endpoint, a Kubernetes Secret for the machine key, and others —
are recorded in the design doc under "Designs not used", each with the reason
it lost.
Because the token is a bearer credential rather than a channel credential, the
agent can also broker tokens to co-located services over a Unix socket. fmds
can then run without the machine key mounted at all, which is what closes the
key-spreading problem above.
Everything is off by default (
[node_auth] enabled = false) and the twomechanisms run side by side when it is enabled, so enabling is
order-independent: a server with node-auth disabled ignores the bearer header,
and a node that cannot mint yet simply sends no header.
Disabling is not symmetric. Once fmds is deployed in token mode, turning
enabledoff stops the API accepting bearer tokens immediately while fmdskeeps presenting them until DPF has rolled every DaemonSet.
[node_auth] fmds_use_node_tokensexists to sequence that: set itfalsewhileenabledis still
trueto move fmds back to client certificates first. The reversecombination is refused at startup. The design doc has the full procedure.
Related issues
Fixes #355
Part of the Vault-elimination epic #195.
Type of Change
Breaking Changes
Testing
Chart tests (helm unittest) assert the security property of token mode
directly: the credentials directory is absent from the pod's volumes and from
both containers, with the mount counts pinned so it cannot be reintroduced
unnoticed. Note that CI's
helm-validatestep runslintandtemplateonly-- it does not execute chart tests -- so these were run locally via the
helmunittest/helm-unittestimage.Unit tests cover the validator end to end against a test PKI: a client-minted
token round-tripping to its certificate's SPIFFE URI, rejection of garbage,
missing chains, untrusted CAs and over-long lifetimes, a configured audience
round-tripping while the default is refused, client-CA rotation being honored
after a refresh, and a corrupt bundle leaving the previous trust anchors in
place. The authn middleware has tests for bearer principals with and without an
authenticator configured and for
mtls_enabled = falsesuppressing machinecert principals while leaving service certs alone. There are also tests for the
agent's local API socket (a key-less consumer obtaining a token through it, and
the socket being root-only) and for TLS enforcement surviving a token-only
client config.
Not manually exercised on hardware. The DPF token-mode path in particular
(chart mounts, the agent socket inside a DPU) has only been validated by
rendering the charts and by unit tests.
Additional Notes
Suggested reading order:
docs/design/machine-identity/node-auth-jwt.mdfirst —it covers the trust model, the new-DPU-to-first-authorized-call walkthrough, and
the JWT best-practice checklist — then
crates/api-core/src/node_auth.rsforvalidation and
crates/rpc/src/node_jwt.rsfor minting.Operational notes for reviewers:
[node_auth] audiencemust be kept in sync between the API and its nodes. TheAPI templates it onto DPF-deployed agents automatically; Scout and
non-DPF agents take it from their own config (
--node-auth-audience/[forge-system] node-auth-audience).enabled = falseandmtls_enabled = false,and refuses to accept bearer tokens on a non-TLS listener.
five-minute tick, so a client-CA rotation does not require an API restart.
One known follow-up, deliberately out of scope here:
parsing) and runs on every request, where mTLS amortizes the equivalent over
a long-lived connection. Tokens repeat for their whole 5-minute life, so
caching successful validations would remove nearly all of it. Filed as Cache validated node-auth JWTs to cut per-request verification cost #4388
with the measurement and the invalidation constraints.
Review findings have been fixed rather than deferred. The root CA is published
to a key-free directory and mounted as a directory (an earlier
subPathmountexcluded the key but pinned the inode, so a rotation never reached a running
pod); the minter refuses to sign when the certificate and key on disk disagree,
which could otherwise happen mid-renewal and cache an unusable token; attaching
a token provider now implies server-certificate validation and a non-HTTPS
endpoint is refused outright, so a bearer token cannot leave the process in the
clear; a failed TLS acceptor rebuild keeps the previous acceptor instead of
serving plaintext while the bearer authenticator stays armed; and the agent's
socket directory must be a real directory it owns, with only an actual socket
ever unlinked from it.
This branch supersedes #4373, which was opened from a fork that is no longer in
use. The content is the same work plus the review fixes above.