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# Architecture Part 5 — The Hub
> Status: design draft (decision content). To be validated by Claude Code against the **actual
> felhom-hub source** (`felhom.eu` repo, `hub/`) + Parts 0104, then placed at
> `docs/architecture/05-hub-architecture.md`.
>
> The hub is **not** greenfield — it's a mature service (felhom-hub v0.6.3, Go + SQLite on k3s,
> `hub.felhom.eu`). This doc is the **deltas** to evolve it for the Proxmox model, plus the new
> data model. Builds on Part 1 (trust/enrollment), Part 3 (the agent + reconcile), Part 4 (signing).
## 1. Source-of-truth model — two drivers, two directions
The single most important framing, and the one that governs everything below: the hub is **not** a
monolithic source of truth. State flows in two directions with opposite drivers.
- **Operator-driven *intent* — hub authors, agent reconciles (top-down).** Which guests should
exist and their spec, storage *policy* (a target's role/class/backup schedule), controller +
golden-image versions, identity, tunnel. The operator sets these in the hub; the agent converges
toward them. Here the hub *is* the source of truth.
- **Box/customer-driven *reality* — box authors, pushes up, hub mirrors (bottom-up).** Which USB
drive is *physically* attached (and its `durable_id`), what apps are deployed and where, the
customer's controller configs/settings, host/guest health, latest PBS snapshot pointers. The
customer or the physical world drives these; the box reports them; the hub stays an up-to-date
**mirror** but is **never** the driver.
They meet at a **handshake**, not a tug-of-war. Storage is the clearest case: the customer plugs in
a drive → the agent *detects* it and reports `durable_id X attached` (reality) → the operator
assigns `role=bulk, class=slow, backup=weekly` (policy, intent) → the agent reconciles that policy
*onto the detected drive*. **Apps never enter the reconcile loop** — app deployment is the
controller's domain (customer- or operator-driven, inside the guest); the hub only mirrors the
resulting inventory. **Reconciliation applies to infrastructure; the app/customer layer is mirrored.**
## 2. Data model (Part 1 decision (b): customer-anchored)
A customer's deployment is one **Host** (its agent) plus one-or-more **Guests** (its controllers).
1 customer = 1 host + N guests; the shared-host multi-tenant case is deferred (not precluded — the
`hosts` table is the seam it would use).
- **`customer_configs`** (existing) — the Customer anchor: identity, domain, email,
`retrieval_password`, status, config_json. Unchanged role.
- **`hosts`** (new) — `host_id PK, customer_id, api_key` (the agent's hub key), `agent_version`,
desired-state intent (storage manifest + policies + golden-image version, as JSON), a per-host
**`desired_generation`** counter, the slim DR record (§9), timestamps.
- **`guests`** (new) — `guest_id PK, customer_id, host_id, api_key` (the controller's hub key),
`display_name, controller_version`, per-guest **`desired_spec_json`** (CPU/mem/disk, versions),
timestamps.
**Per-reporter keys:** today's per-customer `api_key` becomes per-reporter — `hosts.api_key` (agent)
and `guests.api_key` (controller). The hub resolves a presented Bearer key → host or guest → customer.
**Clean cutover:** no dual-model support; the demo re-enrolls fresh into `host + guests`.
## 3. Report ingest — two domains
The single controller report splits. The de-privileged controller no longer sees host disks/storage/
backup, so its report **slims** (it loses System/Storage/Backup, keeps app-domain).
- **`POST /api/v1/host-report`** (new, agent) → **`host_reports`**: host CPU/RAM/disk, per-guest
up/down + spec, storage-target status (attached drives + `durable_id` + reachability), last backup
+ restore-test per target, latest PBS snapshot pointers, `cloudflared` health, agent + controller
versions. Denormalized columns for the dashboard; full `report_json`. Index `(host_id, received_at
DESC)` + `(customer_id, received_at DESC)`.
- **`POST /api/v1/report`** (existing, slimmed controller) → the renamed **`guest_reports`**: it
gains `guest_id` + `host_id`; its `cpu/memory` denorm now means *guest-level*; `backup_last_snapshot`
goes quiet (backup status lives in `host_reports`). App telemetry / log issues stay.
These two streams are the bottom-up mirror of §1 — they keep the hub current without a separate push.
## 4. Liveness / dead-man's-switch
Evolves the existing 60s staleness checker (today: controller-report recency → `node_stale`/`down`/
`recovered`):
- **Primary = host-report recency → `host_stale` / `host_down`.** The agent heartbeat is the box's
liveness signal; a silent agent = the box is gone (the critical alert).
- **Guest up/down comes from the host report's per-guest status** — authoritative, every poll, faster
than waiting for a guest report to go stale.
- **Guest-report recency = secondary** app-level signal.
The existing backup-deadline checker maps onto `host_reports`' last-backup-per-target.
## 5. Desired-state serving
The operator's **intent** (§1 top-down) lives as JSON on `hosts`/`guests` (storage manifest +
policies + golden version on the host; per-guest spec + versions on the guest) with a per-host
`desired_generation`. The agent pulls its host's desired state on poll (with the generation, so it
reconciles only on change and reports which generation it has converged to).
- **Benign convergence** (create a guest, attach storage per policy, bump a version, adjust a
non-destructive policy) → the agent reconciles freely.
- **Destructive convergence** (guest removal = destroy, storage detach/wipe, data-losing resize) →
the agent requires a **matching signed op** (§6) before executing that delta; absent/invalid → it
refuses and reports `pending_signature`.
**Geo is *not* in the agent's desired state** — it's customer→hub→Cloudflare (§7); the agent never
touches WAF.
## 6. Authorization — signed-op queue + editing flow
Implements Part 4's gate on the hub side. The hub holds **no signing key**.
- **`signed_ops`** (new): `op_id, customer_id, host_id, target_guest, op_type, op_blob (canonical
JSON), signature (armored SSHSIG), status (pending_signature → signed → delivered → executed /
failed / expired / rejected), nonce, issued_at, expires_at, executed_at, result`.
- **Editing flow:** the operator edits a customer's desired state (building on the existing config-
form + Push/Pull/Diff). The hub diffs vs current and **classifies each delta** (B1 rule):
- **benign** → published straight to desired state;
- **destructive** → the hub generates the canonical op blob and routes it through signing.
- **Signing hand-off (Part 4 option (b)):** a local operator CLI (`felhom-sign --pending`) fetches
the pending blob from the hub, signs it on the workstation with the dedicated key, and posts the
signature back into `signed_ops`. The hub never sees the key.
- The agent polls `signed_ops` for its host alongside desired state, verifies (Part 4 pipeline),
executes, and reports status → the hub logs to the existing **`events`** audit trail.
- **Classification lives in both places, with different jobs:** the hub classifies at *edit time*
for UX (prompt to sign); the **agent's classification is the authoritative guard** (a compromised
hub could skip the prompt, but the agent still enforces the signature).
- A **pending-ops view** per customer shows the lifecycle (awaiting signature → awaiting agent →
executed).
## 7. Geo enforcement (Part-2 S4)
The hub already holds the CF API token (the config form notes Zone WAF:Edit) and already has a
remove-all path (`internal/cloudflare/unblock.go`). The delta: the **customer sets geo in the
controller UI → the controller reports the geo desired-state up → the hub reconciles it into the
Cloudflare WAF** (rather than pushing the token down to the controller). The hub keeps the
remove-all override for self-lockout. The controller no longer calls the CF API.
## 8. Enrollment (evolution of the existing retrieval-password/config-gen flow)
Today: `GET /config/{id}` with an `X-Retrieval-Password` (Hungarian passphrase) returns a deep-merged
`controller.yaml`. New:
- Enrollment mints the **agent identity first** (the agent then provisions controllers), pins the
**operator signing public keys** (Part 4 — operational + cold recovery) onto the agent, and the
agent mints each controller's bootstrap (its hub guest key + local-API token).
- A **restore-mode** re-enrollment (§9) hands an existing identity to a fresh agent.
The existing `configgen` deep-merge + Hungarian-passphrase machinery is the base; it grows the
agent-first + key-pinning + restore-mode steps.
## 9. DR model
The headline: the **old heavy infra-backup push retires** — not because the hub authors everything
(§1 says it doesn't), but because (a) the box-driven mirror already arrives via the §3 report streams,
and (b) the actual app **data + configs live inside the PBS guest snapshot**. So a separate
config+secrets+restic-password infra-backup blob is redundant.
What remains:
- the **report streams** keep the hub's mirror current (storage layout + `durable_id`s, app inventory,
snapshot pointers);
- the agent **escrows the recovery-code-wrapped PBS key** to the hub (the one artifact only the box
can produce — zero-knowledge: the hub stores it, cannot open it);
- a **slim DR record** on the `hosts` row (PBS namespace + repo fingerprint + the wrapped escrow key).
`infra_backup_versions` retires; `infra_backups` is repurposed into the slim DR record (or folded
onto `hosts`). The **controller's infra-backup push is removed** (it's de-privileged).
**Recovery (host loss):** the new agent re-enrolls in **restore mode**; the hub hands it the durable
record (identity, tunnel token, storage manifest, PBS namespace, guest inventory + snapshots) **plus
the wrapped escrow key**. The **customer provides their recovery code at the agent**, which unwraps
the PBS key locally (never sent to the hub); the agent restores guests from PBS, resets identity,
reuses the tunnel. The customer recovery code is the irreducible residual (the premium operator-
managed custody tier avoids it, at the cost of the operator holding the key). The old controller-
targeted `GET /recovery/{id}` is replaced by this agent restore-mode flow.
## 10. What persists from today (unchanged or lightly adapted)
The Customer record (`customer_configs`); config generation/retrieval (`configgen`); the two-tier
notification system (operator English / customer Hungarian, Resend, cooldowns); `events` + audit;
`app_telemetry` / `app_log_issues`; customer lifecycle actions (block/unblock, trigger-update,
delete); the asset manager; and the dashboard — adapted to render the **host + guests** view per
customer instead of a single controller.
## 11. Schema deltas (grounded in store.go's idempotent style; clean cutover)
- **NEW:** `hosts`, `guests`, `host_reports`, `signed_ops`.
- **RENAME** `reports` → `guest_reports`; add `guest_id`, `host_id`; reinterpret `cpu/memory` as
guest-level; `backup_last_snapshot` goes quiet.
- **ADD** desired-state JSON + `desired_generation` to `hosts`; `desired_spec_json` to `guests`.
- **RETIRE** `infra_backup_versions`; **repurpose** `infra_backups` → slim DR record (or fold onto
`hosts`).
- **KEEP** `customer_configs`, `events`, `customer_notifications`, `notification_log`,
`app_telemetry`, `app_log_issues`.
## 12. Open items
- Operator signing-key operational mechanics (Part 4 §8) — the hub-side pending-op UI is here; the
key custody/rotation tooling is Part 4's.
- Multi-tenant resource fairness (deferred shared-host case).
- Hub-side desired-state **editing UX** specifics (form/diff wiring) — to be grounded against
`hub/internal/web/configs.go` at implementation.
- Golden-image refresh cadence / fleet versioning (carried from Part 3 §13).