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48 changes: 36 additions & 12 deletions deploy/hetzner/Caddyfile
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Expand Up @@ -18,13 +18,6 @@ api.nesy-prover.dev {
request_body {
max_size 1MB
}
rate_limit {
zone api {
key {remote_host}
events 30
window 1m
}
}

header {
Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000"
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-Server
}

# `echidna` resolves on the shared podman network (echidna.network);
# the API container publishes no host port.
reverse_proxy echidna:8081 {
transport http {
response_header_timeout 120s
# CONTAINMENT STOPGAP (owner ruling 2026-11-05). The API has no
# authentication yet and its execution routes spawn prover binaries
# on caller input. Until bearer auth lands on every execution route,
# only these two read-only GET routes are forwarded. Everything else,
# including /api/prove, /api/verify*, /api/session/* and
# /api/agent/*, is refused here and never reaches the container.
# Remove this matcher only in the change that enables auth.
@public {
method GET HEAD
path /api/health /api/provers
}

# `route` keeps the written order. The rate limiter must run first: at
# site level Caddy would sort it after the terminal `handle` blocks
# below, and it would then never run.
route {
rate_limit {
zone api {
key {remote_host}
events 30
window 1m
}
}

handle @public {
# `echidna` resolves on the shared podman network (echidna.network);
# the API container publishes no host port.
reverse_proxy echidna:8081 {
transport http {
response_header_timeout 120s
}
}
}

handle {
respond "Prover execution is disabled on this host until authentication is enabled." 403
}
}
}
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Expand Up @@ -30,6 +30,88 @@ Let's Encrypt), orchestrated with podman systemd quadlets.
If abuse appears, add a bearer-token matcher in the Caddyfile for
POST routes. A server-side per-request prover timeout is tracked as a
follow-up issue in the main repo.
*Superseded 2026-11-05*: see <<containment-stopgap>>.

[[containment-stopgap]]
== Containment stopgap (owner ruling 2026-11-05)

Until bearer authentication lands on every execution route, this host
serves read-only routes only, and it no longer rolls out new images by
itself.

* The `Caddyfile` forwards only `GET`/`HEAD` on `/api/health` and
`/api/provers`. Every other request is answered `403` by Caddy and
never reaches the container. That includes `/api/prove`,
`/api/verify*`, `/api/session/*`, `/api/agent/*` and `/api/search`.
* `echidna.container` drops `AutoUpdate=registry` and sets `Pull=never`.
The unit runs the image already on the host, so a newly published
`:latest` is not deployed. This *freezes* the running image. It does
not verify it.

Apply on the host as the `deploy` user.

*1. Find out which install this host has.* These steps are for a host
installed with the quadlets in §2 (units `echidna.service` and
`caddy.service`). A host installed from the appendix runs
`container-echidna` and `container-caddy` instead. For that kind of host,
use step 4 instead of step 3.

[source,console]
----
systemctl --user cat echidna.service caddy.service >/dev/null && echo quadlet
systemctl --user cat container-echidna.service container-caddy.service >/dev/null && echo appendix
----

*2. Record the image the container is running.* Record the running
container's image ID, not the tag's digest. If an auto-update or a manual
pull has moved the local `:latest` tag since the container started, a
restart with `Pull=never` would start the image the tag now points to.

[source,console]
----
systemctl --user disable --now podman-auto-update.timer

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P2 Badge Stop an in-flight auto-update before recording the image

If the daily timer has already fired when this step runs, disable --now stops the specified timer but does not stop the separately activated podman-auto-update.service; the systemctl documentation defines --now as stopping the units being disabled, while the Podman documentation confirms that the timer activates a service which pulls images and restarts units. That service can therefore retag or restart echidna after RUNNING is captured—or after the final check—defeating the freeze during this race; explicitly stop and wait for podman-auto-update.service before inspecting the image.

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RUNNING=$(podman container inspect echidna --format '{{.Image}}') || exit 1
TAGGED=$(podman image inspect --format '{{.Id}}' ghcr.io/hyperpolymath/echidna:latest) || exit 1
echo "running=$RUNNING tagged=$TAGGED"
# If they differ, point :latest back at the running image before restarting:
[ "$RUNNING" = "$TAGGED" ] || podman tag "$RUNNING" ghcr.io/hyperpolymath/echidna:latest || exit 1
----

*3. Quadlet host.* Copy the updated `Caddyfile` and `echidna.container`
into place, then:

[source,console]
----
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user restart echidna caddy
----

*4. Appendix host.* Those containers carry no auto-update label, and
`podman generate systemd --new` units do not pull an image that is
already present. So only the proxy changes. Copy the updated
`Caddyfile` to `/opt/echidna/Caddyfile`, then:

[source,console]
----
systemctl --user restart container-caddy
----

*5. Verify, on either kind of host.* The container must still run the
image recorded in step 2.

[source,console]
----
[ "$(podman container inspect echidna --format '{{.Image}}')" = "$RUNNING" ] && echo same-image

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Persist the recorded image ID.

RUNNING is a shell-local variable from step 2. If the operator runs this separate step 5 block in a new shell, $RUNNING is empty and same-image never prints. Store the ID in a file, or make step 5 read the recorded value explicitly.

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Review comment at @deploy/hetzner/README.adoc at line 104:
Update the step 5 comparison to read the recorded image ID from persistent state
rather than relying on the shell-local RUNNING variable from step 2; preserve
the existing same-image output when the IDs match.

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curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' https://api.nesy-prover.dev/api/health # expect 200
curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' -X POST https://api.nesy-prover.dev/api/verify # expect 403
----

Stop and reassess if step 1 does not print exactly one of `quadlet` or `appendix`, or if
step 5 does not print `same-image`, `200` and `403`.

The stopgap ends in the change that enables authentication. That change
re-pins `Image=` to the signed image by digest and removes the `@public`
matcher. Do not re-enable `podman-auto-update.timer` before then.

== 0. Preflight (read-only, do first)

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== 5. Updates and rollback

NOTE: Unattended rollout is *disabled* while the
<<containment-stopgap>> is in force. The commands below apply only to a
tag-based `Image=` with `AutoUpdate=registry`, because `podman
auto-update` acts only on containers that carry that label. A
digest-pinned image, which is what the change ending the stopgap
introduces, changes only through a PR that bumps the digest.

`ghcr-publish.yml` pushes a new `:latest` on every GitHub release.
Enable unattended rollout:

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# over echidna-net), memory/pids limits, tmpfs /tmp, no privilege
# escalation. Healthcheck uses the binary — the image ships no curl.
#
# Image tag :latest is intentional together with AutoUpdate=registry +
# podman-auto-update.timer: new releases roll out automatically and a
# failing healthcheck rolls back. For pinned mode, set Image= to a
# :vX.Y.Z tag or digest and bump via PR (see README.adoc).
# CONTAINMENT STOPGAP (owner ruling 2026-11-05): automatic rollout is OFF.
# AutoUpdate=registry is removed and Pull=never makes the unit run the
# image already on the host, so a newly published :latest is never pulled.
# This freezes the running image; it does not verify it. Re-pin to the
# signed image by digest in the change that lands authentication
# (see README.adoc, "Containment stopgap").

[Unit]
Description=ECHIDNA theorem-prover API

[Container]
Image=ghcr.io/hyperpolymath/echidna:latest
AutoUpdate=registry
Pull=never
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ContainerName=echidna
Network=echidna.network
Exec=server --port 8081 --host 0.0.0.0 --cors
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a *1 MB request body cap*
* the container is capped at `+--memory=1500m --pids-limit=512+`, with a
tmpfs `+/tmp+` and `+NoNewPrivileges+`
* `+AutoUpdate=registry+` plus `+HealthOnFailure=kill+` means a new
release rolls out unattended and an unhealthy container *fails the
unit*, which is what makes rollback actually fire
* `+HealthOnFailure=kill+` means an unhealthy container *fails the
unit*, so systemd restarts it
* *Containment stopgap (2026-11-05):* Caddy forwards only `GET`/`HEAD`
on `+/api/health+` and `+/api/provers+`, and refuses every execution
route with `403`. `+AutoUpdate=registry+` is off, and `+Pull=never+`
freezes the running image until authentication lands. See
Comment on lines +91 to +92

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P2 Badge Keep the machine-readable deployment policy synchronized

The hosting document now says automatic updates are disabled, but its declared companion .machine_readable/deployment.a2ml still sets update-policy = "auto-update-registry" at line 60. Any tooling consuming the machine-readable topology will therefore report or act on the obsolete rollout policy rather than this containment configuration; update the companion file in the same change as required by the synchronization note at the top of this document.

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link:../deploy/hetzner/README.adoc#containment-stopgap[the runbook].

==== Why the caging matters

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