CIS490/etc/cis490-cert-fetch.timer
max 3180f7b5ac lab-host: cis490-cert-fetch.timer for automatic mTLS bootstrap retry
k-gamingcom symptom (2026-05-02): the on-device agent successfully
finished Tier-3 bring-up, but the shipper sits in "waiting on mTLS
material" because the cert auto-fetch step in install-lab-host.sh
either ran with host_id still REPLACE_ME, or hit a transient
bootstrap.wg failure, and there's no automatic retry. The Pi-side
cert IS minted and the bootstrap endpoint serves it — the failure
mode is purely "lab-host hasn't pulled it down."

Fix: extract the cert-fetch logic into scripts/fetch-lab-host-cert.sh
(idempotent, no-op when certs are already on disk, no-op when host_id
is unset, exit-0 on transient network failure so the unit doesn't
get pinned as failed), and run it from a 5-minute systemd timer.
The timer handles all three "stuck waiting on mTLS" cases without
operator action:

  - operator edited host_id post-install but didn't re-run install
  - bootstrap.wg was briefly unreachable during install
  - lab host was offline when install ran but came up later

The script `try-restart`s cis490-shipper after a successful fetch
so the daemon picks up the new cert immediately instead of waiting
for its lazy retry. install-lab-host.sh still calls the script
on install for fast first-time bring-up — the timer is the safety
net.

Tarball extract is staged through a temp dir + atomic rename so a
mid-extract crash never leaves us with a mismatched cert/key pair.

AGENTS.md row 4 updated: "waiting on mTLS material" remediation now
points at the timer, with the exact `systemctl start
cis490-cert-fetch.service` command to force an immediate retry.

Tests: 267/267 unchanged. The fetch script is idempotent + has all
its happy/error paths handled inline; a unit test would mostly be
testing systemd's behaviour. The integration test path is the timer
running on a real lab host, which is the actual production case.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-02 13:30:16 -05:00

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SYSTEMD

[Unit]
Description=Periodically fetch CIS490 mTLS leaf cert if missing
Documentation=https://maxgit.wg/spectral/CIS490
[Timer]
# Fire 30 seconds after boot — covers the freshly-installed host
# scenario (operator edits host_id; cert lands within ~30s of next
# boot or timer tick).
OnBootSec=30sec
# Then aggressively for the first hour (5 min cadence) to handle the
# common "operator just edited host_id" path without making them
# wait. Once the host has its cert the script is a no-op so the
# 5-min cadence is cheap.
OnUnitActiveSec=5min
# Resists clock-skew + matches systemd's coarse scheduling.
AccuracySec=10sec
# If the host was off when a tick was due, run on next boot.
Persistent=true
Unit=cis490-cert-fetch.service
[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target