This commit fixes two bugs:
1) When starting a github-runner for the very first time, the
unconfigure script did not copy the `tokenFile` to the state
directory. This case just was not handled so far. As a result, the
runner could not configure. The unit did, however, fail even before
as the state token file is configured as inaccessible for the service
through `InaccessiblePaths=`. As the given path did not exist in the
described case, setting up the unit's namespacing failed.
2) Similarly, the `tokenFile` is also marked as not accessible to the
service user. There are, however, cases where other namespacing
options make the files inaccessible even before `InaccessiblePaths=`
kicks in; thus, they appear as non existing and cause the namespacing
to fail yet again. Prefixing the entry with a `-` causes Systemd to
ignore the entry if it cannot find it. This is the behavior we want.
I also took fixing those bugs as a chance to refactor the unconfigure
script to make it easier to follow.
conversions were done using https://github.com/pennae/nix-doc-munge
using (probably) rev f34e145 running
nix-doc-munge nixos/**/*.nix
nix-doc-munge --import nixos/**/*.nix
the tool ensures that only changes that could affect the generated
manual *but don't* are committed, other changes require manual review
and are discarded.
using regular strings works well for docbook because docbook is not as
whitespace-sensitive as markdown. markdown would render all of these as
code blocks when given the chance.
The `runsvc.sh` script wraps a JavaScript script which starts
`Runner.Listener` and also handles failures. This has the downside that
the service _always_ exits with status code 0, i.e., success. This
causes frequent service restarts when running in ephemeral mode with a
faulty config as Systemd always sees a success exit status. To prevent
this, this commit changes the service config to call `Runner.Listener`
directly. The JavaScript wrapper stops the process with a SIGINT, hence,
the Systemd unit now sends a SIGINT to stop the service.
Adds the module option `ephemeral`. If set to true, configures the
runner registration with the `--ephemeral` option. This causes the
runner to exit after processing a single job, to de-register itself, and
to delete its configuration. Afterward, systemd restarts the service
which triggers a new ephemeral registration with a clean state.
This commit introduces support for runner registrations through a
personal access token (PAT). To use a PAT instead of a registration
token, place an appropriately scoped PAT in `tokenFile`. If the file
contains a PAT, the configuration script queries a new runner
registration token. Using a runner registration token directly continues
to work as before.
Using the runtime directory as `RUNNER_ROOT` is wrong. We should always
use the state directory like we already do when invoking the runner
configure script. Otherwise, the runner constructs the wrong path for
some files (.credentials, .runner, ...).
make (almost) all links appear on only a single line, with no
unnecessary whitespace, using double quotes for attributes. this lets us
automatically convert them to markdown easily.
the few remaining links are extremely long link in a gnome module, we'll
come back to those at a later date.
the conversion procedure is simple:
- find all things that look like options, ie calls to either `mkOption`
or `lib.mkOption` that take an attrset. remember the attrset as the
option
- for all options, find a `description` attribute who's value is not a
call to `mdDoc` or `lib.mdDoc`
- textually convert the entire value of the attribute to MD with a few
simple regexes (the set from mdize-module.sh)
- if the change produced a change in the manual output, discard
- if the change kept the manual unchanged, add some text to the
description to make sure we've actually found an option. if the
manual changes this time, keep the converted description
this procedure converts 80% of nixos options to markdown. around 2000
options remain to be inspected, but most of those fail the "does not
change the manual output check": currently the MD conversion process
does not faithfully convert docbook tags like <code> and <package>, so
any option using such tags will not be converted at all.
This change allows detecting configuration errors during
switch-to-configuration instead of them being reported asynchronously
*after* switch-to-configuration has exited.
(And update the NixOS test accordingly.)
The current authentication code is broken against newer jenkins:
jenkins-job-builder-start[1257]: Asking Jenkins to reload config
jenkins-start[789]: 2022-07-12 14:34:31.148+0000 [id=17] WARNING hudson.security.csrf.CrumbFilter#doFilter: Found invalid crumb 31e96e52938b51f099a61df9505a4427cb9dca7e35192216755659032a4151df. If you are calling this URL with a script, please use the API Token instead. More information: https://www.jenkins.io/redirect/crumb-cannot-be-used-for-script
jenkins-start[789]: 2022-07-12 14:34:31.160+0000 [id=17] WARNING hudson.security.csrf.CrumbFilter#doFilter: No valid crumb was included in request for /reload by admin. Returning 403.
jenkins-job-builder-start[1357]: curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 403
Fix it by using `jenkins-cli` instead of messing with `curl`.
This rewrite also prevents leaking the password in process listings. (We
could probably do it without `replace-secret`, assuming `printf` is a
shell built-in, but this implementation should be safe even with shells
not having a built-in `printf`.)
Ref https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/156400.
The description for the runner in the UI is by default sthg like
"npm_nixos_d0544ed48909" i.e., the name of the attribute.
I wanted to have a more user-friendly description and added a
description to the service.
Seems like gitlab-runner doesn't like having both fields set:
"Cannot use two forms of the same flag: description name"
so I used one or the other.
Installs Java into the Jenkins agent and allows specifying the JDK/JRE package to use. This is necessary as Jenkins verifies if the agent contains Java installed through the java -fullversion command, which if not, the connection will fail.
We spent a whole afternoon debugging this, because upstream has very
bad software quality and the error messages were incredibly
misleading.
So let’s document it for the sanity of other people.
Btw, I think the implementation of our module is pretty brittle,
especially the part about diffing tokens to check whether they
changed. We should rather just request a new builder registration
every time, it’s not that much overhead, and always set `replace` so
it is idempotent.
The `nix.*` options, apart from options for setting up the
daemon itself, currently provide a lot of setting mappings
for the Nix daemon configuration. The scope of the mapping yields
convience, but the line where an option is considered essential
is blurry. For instance, the `extra-sandbox-paths` mapping is
provided without its primary consumer, and the corresponding
`sandbox-paths` option is also not mapped.
The current system increases the maintenance burden as maintainers have to
closely follow upstream changes. In this case, there are two state versions
of Nix which have to be maintained collectively, with different options
avaliable.
This commit aims to following the standard outlined in RFC 42[1] to
implement a structural setting pattern. The Nix configuration is encoded
at its core as key-value pairs which maps nicely to attribute sets, making
it feasible to express in the Nix language itself. Some existing options are
kept such as `buildMachines` and `registry` which present a simplified interface
to managing the respective settings. The interface is exposed as `nix.settings`.
Legacy configurations are mapped to their corresponding options under `nix.settings`
for backwards compatibility.
Various options settings in other nixos modules and relevant tests have been
updated to use structural setting for consistency.
The generation and validation of the configration file has been modified to
use `writeTextFile` instead of `runCommand` for clarity. Note that validation
is now mandatory as strict checking of options has been pushed down to the
derivation level due to freeformType consuming unmatched options. Furthermore,
validation can not occur when cross-compiling due to current limitations.
A new option `publicHostKey` was added to the `buildMachines`
submodule corresponding to the base64 encoded public host key settings
exposed in the builder syntax. The build machine generation was subsequently
rewritten to use `concatStringsSep` for better performance by grouping
concatenations.
[1] - https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0042-config-option.md
adds defaultText for all options that use `cfg.*` values in their
defaults, but only for interpolations with no extra processing (other
than toString where necessary)
This commit changes how we deal with the current token, i.e., the token
which may exist from a previous runner registration, and the configured
token, i.e., the path set for the respective NixOS configuration option.
Until now, we copied the configured and the current token (if any) to
the runtime directory to compare them. The path of the current token may
reference a file which is only accessible to specific users (even only
root). Therefore, we ran the copying of credentials with elevated
privileges by prefixing the `ExecStartPre=` script with a `+` (see
systemd.service(5)). In this script, we also changed the owner of the
files to the service user. Apparently, however, the user/group pair
sometimes did not exist because we use `DynamicUser=`.
To address this issue, we no longer change the owner of the file.
Instead, we change the file permissions to 0666 to allow the runner
configuration script (runs with full sandboxing) to read-write the file.
Due to the current permissions of the runtime directory (0755), this
would expose the token. Therefore, we process the tokens in the state
directory, which is only accessible to the service user.
If a new token file exists in the state directory, the configuration
script should trigger a new runner registration. Afterward, it deletes
the new token file. The token is still available using the path of the
current token which is inaccessible within the service's sandbox.
