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The census answers no, three receipts found, and the prune was on file all along
CENSUS (read-only, hub store, tester's machine not contacted): no machine that is
not ours can be in the state that cost demo-felhom its history. The hub holds
escrow for three hosts; both demo boxes lost their pre-fix key in the same four
hours on 2026-08-04; peti-felhom and david have no host row and no escrow at all.
A control ran FIRST and had to pass -- the query returned "present (572 bytes)"
for a host known to have material and "absent (NULL)" for one known not to.
Corrected my own instrument on the way: a date-only comparison mislabelled both
losses as after the fix, so the in-force moment is now pinned from the hub's first
post-fix escrow row (11:11:37Z), which independently agrees with the register.

PART 1 ESTABLISHED. The prune is recorded inside R-267 -- the row about the
Configuration page being slow -- because pruning artifacts is what made that page
fast. Arithmetic checks (23+7=30, plus three versions that only surfaced after the
first thirty moved them onto page one = 33) and the PAGINATED listing shows both
generics at exactly ten. R-291's blocking condition is released: the operator was
being asked to establish something already written down. And my counter-argument
yesterday was wrong in exactly the way R-267 warns about -- "containers hold 19"
came from an unpaginated query; paginated they hold 270 and 169.

RECEIPTS: three restored (drives.enrol, backup.tier1, fail.lost-recovery-code),
each citing the document that walked it; the map already read PROVEN-LIVE for all
three, so this follows the map rather than raising a status in the view. NINE
HONEST GREYS. fault.selfheal's best hit argues against it -- an incident recording
self-heal's absence through a 1h15m outage.

THE DECAY RULE FIRED FOR THE FIRST TIME. backup.restore-proof has a receipt from
28 July and is superseded anyway: demo-hp's restore-test failed 5 August and the
box has since been rebuilt. A claim about a continuing behaviour cannot rest on an
old observation. The capability map still reads PROVEN-LIVE and is now the thing
out of step -- recorded, not silently rewritten.

PART 4 specified, not implemented. The orphan card promises restorability the box
rendering it cannot evaluate: the discriminator is on the hub and no wire field
carries it. A conditional promise the system cannot evaluate is the same defect as
an unconditional false one, so the copy stops promising, says what happens, and
names a route. Ships with the next controller change so one bake covers both.
2026-08-10 11:15:37 +02:00
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Felhom host scripts

Operator-side scripts for standing up a Felhom Proxmox host.

felhom-host-install.sh — Day-0 host bootstrap (operator-deploy)

Run on a freshly-PVE-installed box to fully automate Day-0: Proxmox API token → hub host enrollment (single secret) → agent install (fetch + verify + install) → agent config → golden → guest provision → verify. It composes already-proven mechanisms (the pveum role/token sequence, the hub POST /host-enroll enrollment from option C, and felhom-agent --selftest=provision). The agent renders bootstrap.json into the guest and the controller pulls its own controller.yaml in-guest — the script never fetches that.

Since v1.1.0 (BUNDLE slice) the script also installs the agent itself: it fetches the agent binary + golden from Gitea generic packages and verifies each artifact's sha256 against the hub-vouched manifest (GET /api/v1/artifacts/{id}) before installing/using it. The fetch credential is the git token already inside the customer's controller.yaml (config-retrieve) — no new credential, and the checksum trust root is the hub, not Gitea.

Grounding: documentation/audits/SPIKE-day0-firstboot-handshake-2026-06-26.md.

Prerequisites (manual, before running)

  1. Install Proxmox VE 9.x on the box. During the installer, use Advanced → LVM sizing so local-lvm (the pve/data thin pool) has enough room for the appliance volumes — a useful box wants ≥ ~120 GiB free on local-lvm (rootfs 32G + Docker-data ~200G + user-data ~50G after grows). The script refuses below the hard minimum.
  2. SSH into the box as root.
  3. Create the customer in the hub first (hub UI → new customer). The customer's retrieval passphrase (a 5-word Hungarian phrase) is the only secret you carry to the box.

That's it. The agent binary + golden are fetched + verified + installed by the script (provided the operator has recorded the current artifact set in the hub UI → Configs → Day-0 artifacts, and published them via felhom-agent/scripts/publish-agent.sh + configs/build-golden.sh). A local golden, if present, is still used as a fallback.

Usage

curl -fsSL https://felhom.eu/scripts/felhom-host-install.sh -o felhom-host-install.sh
chmod +x felhom-host-install.sh

# secure no-echo passphrase prompt:
sudo ./felhom-host-install.sh --customer-id <customer>

# or from a 0600 file (no prompt):
sudo ./felhom-host-install.sh --customer-id <customer> --passphrase-file /root/.pass

# preview every mutating command without executing:
sudo ./felhom-host-install.sh --customer-id <customer> --dry-run

# resume after a fixed mid-way failure (skips completed steps):
sudo ./felhom-host-install.sh --customer-id <customer> --resume

The passphrase is read no-echo or from a 0600 file — never a CLI argument, never echoed, never written to the state file or logs. The minted Proxmox-token secret and the per-host hub api_key live only in the agent config (0600, root).

Key options

Option Default Purpose
--customer-id ID (required) customer (must already exist in the hub)
--vmid N 9201 guest VMID to provision
--golden VOLID newest vzdump-lxc-<golden-vmid> golden archive
--rootfs/--datavol/--sysdata-grow N auto-compute volume grows (GiB over the golden base 32/16/8)
--passphrase-file PATH no-echo prompt read passphrase from a 0600 file
--preserve-from PATH merge non-Day-0 sections (PBS/local_api/privileged/authz) from an existing config
--dry-run / --resume / --force off preview / resume / clobber an existing vmid
--mode provision|dr provision dr is a documented 10D stub (not implemented)

Behaviour notes

  • Idempotent + resumable. A step-state file (/var/lib/felhom-install/state.json) records completed steps; --resume skips them. A plain re-run refuses to clobber an existing --vmid (pass --force to override).
  • Single-secret enrollment. POST /host-enroll mints on first call (201) and reuses the credential on later calls (200) — re-running never orphans a running agent's key. The global operator key is never used.
  • Token automation. Creates/normalises the 16-priv FelhomAgent role, the felhom-agent@pve user + privsep token, and both ACL grants (user and token — the ACL is applied after the token exists, because pveum user token remove purges it).
  • Agent install (v1.1.0). Fetches the binary from Gitea (/api/packages/admin/generic/felhom-agent/<ver>/felhom-agent), verifies its sha256 against the hub manifest, then installs the non-root felhom-agent service user + binary + sudoers (0440, visudo -cf-validated) + the canonical systemd unit. Idempotent: same version already installed + service active → skips. A sha256 mismatch aborts the install (verify-before-use). The agent runs non-root (privileged.mode: "sudo" + the sudoers allowlist), never as root.
  • Golden (v1.1.0). Uses a local golden when present; otherwise fetches it from Gitea (/api/packages/admin/generic/felhom-golden/<ver>/golden.tar.zst), verifies its sha256, and imports it into the archive storage's dump dir for the restore. --force-gitea-golden forces the Gitea path even when a local golden exists.
  • DR mode (--mode dr) is a documented seam only — it restores the customer's own PBS whole-CT snapshot instead of the golden. Not implemented (10D).

Productionization hooks (not done here)

  • Serving: place this file where the felhom.eu site serves it at https://felhom.eu/scripts/felhom-host-install.sh (a static route; verify on deploy).
  • Per-customer artifact pinning: the hub manifest currently returns the global current artifact set for every customer; per-customer pinning is a future hook (GET /api/v1/artifacts/{id} already takes the customer id).
  • Unit/sudoers integrity: the binary + golden are sha256-verified against the hub; the unit + sudoers are fetched from the agent repo main (canonical text) and the sudoers is visudo -cf-validated.