D5: an app restore works from the drive alone (v0.188.0)

The recovery unit on the customer's drive now carries the PORTABLE secret
class, so Tier-1/Tier-2 restore no longer depends on the whole-guest tier.
A customer needs the drive and nothing else.

Part 0's rulings overturned the brief's recommendation, on evidence:
- the data_key flag is untrustworthy (4+ encryption keys the catalog itself
  labels as such are unflagged) -> R-127
- a DB password is not resettable in practice: POSTGRES_PASSWORD is ignored
  once PGDATA is non-empty, so a regenerated value leaves the app unable to
  authenticate against its own restored rows while the dump replay still
  reports success (proven on a throwaway postgres:16-alpine)

Ruling (operator): type:secret travels, type:password never does, minus the
nonPortableSecrets code register. Plaintext -- withholding the internet-
reachable class is what licenses that, and the two are coupled.

Precedence: the UNIT WINS over the guest -- the unit's secrets were captured
in the same run as the dumps beside them, so they match the data being
restored. The fail-closed data-key gate is unchanged.

Secret values are never logged; the manifest records NAMES only.
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@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ type StackDataProvider interface {
StopStack(name string) error
StartStack(name string) error
RefreshAndIsRunning(name string) bool
// GetStackRecoveryInfo returns the data needed to capture a SECRET-FREE recovery unit
// (Phase 2): the stack dir, pinned image tags, the non-secret env, and the NAMES of the
// secret/data-key env vars (values are NEVER returned — they are recovered at restore time
// from the guest's own app.yaml, live or via the PBS whole-guest snapshot). ok=false if the
// GetStackRecoveryInfo returns the data needed to capture a recovery unit: the stack dir,
// pinned image tags, the non-secret env, the NAMES of the secret/data-key env vars, and (D5)
// the decrypted VALUES of the portable class. A WITHHELD secret's value is never returned —
// it is recovered at restore time from the guest's app.yaml, or regenerated. ok=false if the
// stack is unknown.
GetStackRecoveryInfo(name string) (RecoveryInfo, bool)
@@ -62,17 +62,27 @@ type StackDataProvider interface {
GetStackClassifiedBinds(name string) ([]ClassifiedBind, bool)
}
// RecoveryInfo carries everything needed to write a secret-free recovery unit for a stack.
// It deliberately holds NO secret values — only the names of secret/data-key env vars, so the
// manifest can record what must be recovered from elsewhere (guest app.yaml / PBS) without the
// unit ever storing a secret or a data-encrypting key.
// RecoveryInfo carries everything needed to write a recovery unit for a stack.
//
// D5: it now carries the VALUES of the PORTABLE secret class (stacks.PortableSecretEnvVars — every
// `type: secret` field bar the nonPortableSecrets register), because a Tier-1/2 restore that depends
// on the guest for a data-encrypting key or a DB password is not independent of the guest at all: the
// data sits safely on the drive and cannot be read back. The EXCLUDED class (`type: password` admin
// logins) is still name-only and never leaves the guest.
type RecoveryInfo struct {
StackDir string // dir holding docker-compose.yml + .felhom.yml + app.yaml
DisplayName string // app display name
ImagePins []string // pinned image tags from compose `image:` lines (re-pulled on restore)
NonSecretEnv map[string]string // env with all secret/password/data-key values removed (plaintext only)
SecretEnvVars []string // NAMES of stripped secret/password fields (recovered from guest/PBS)
NonSecretEnv map[string]string // env with ALL secret/password values removed (plaintext only)
SecretEnvVars []string // NAMES of every secret/password field
DataKeyEnvVars []string // NAMES of data-encrypting-key fields (fail-closed gate on restore)
// PortableSecretEnvVars are the NAMES of the secrets that travel in the unit (D5), and
// PortableSecrets their DECRYPTED values. A name present here but absent from PortableSecrets was
// unset/empty in the guest's app.yaml — the restore's fail-closed gate decides what that means.
// Never logged, never in the manifest's value space: the values reach disk only inside the unit's
// 0600 app.yaml.
PortableSecretEnvVars []string
PortableSecrets map[string]string
}
// ParseComposeImages extracts the pinned image references (`image: repo:tag`) from a
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@@ -40,9 +40,10 @@ func PrimaryBackupPath(nsRoot string) string {
// RecoveryUnitPath returns the per-app self-contained recovery-unit ROOT under a namespace root.
// It is the existing per-app backup dir (`backups/primary/<stack>/`) — the legacy name is kept so the
// db-dumps/ and volume-dumps/ already written there need no migration; the unit gains compose/ and
// manifest.json as siblings, making the whole dir a complete, recreatable unit (Phase 2). The unit is
// secret-free: secrets/data-keys are recovered from the guest's own app.yaml (live or via PBS), never
// stored here. See backup.recoveryUnit / restore for the capture + restore flow.
// manifest.json as siblings, making the whole dir a complete, recreatable unit (Phase 2). Since D5 the
// unit's compose/app.yaml CARRIES the portable secret class (data keys, DB passwords, internal signing
// secrets) at mode 0600, so a Tier-1/2 restore needs the drive and nothing else; internet-reachable
// admin logins are still withheld. See backup.recoveryUnit / restore for the capture + restore flow.
func RecoveryUnitPath(nsRoot, stackName string) string {
return filepath.Join(nsRoot, "backups", "primary", stackName)
}