In the Rust ecosystem there's largely three ways to do system calls:
- raw libc
- nix
- rustix
Of the three, libc is almost all `unsafe` and really 95% of use
cases should be either nix or rustix. nix is the original one,
but after having looked at the code of both, I think rustix
is just better designed and organized. It's also reached 1.0,
whereas nix is still making semver-breaking changes (in fact
we're behind here in this project).
Now in practice, we have both *transitively* in the depchain
already, and that's true for quite a lot of projects.
But I think rustix is better, so let's add rustix as
a workspace dependency (process feature) and migrate
a few use cases to it - it's especially better than the raw
libc which is suprisingly widespread.
If we agree to do this, then many other calls can be ported.
Signed-off-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Migrate all sandbox and VM driver network policy enforcement from
iptables to nftables. nftables provides atomic ruleset loading, a
cleaner rule syntax, and is the standard netfilter interface in modern
kernels.
Sandbox bypass enforcement (openshell-sandbox):
- Replace iptables chain of individual rule insertions with a single
atomic nftables ruleset load via nft -f
- New nft_ruleset module with pure functions for ruleset generation
and unit tests
- Combine log and reject rules in one inet family table (handles both
IPv4 and IPv6 in a single ruleset)
- Fall back to reject-only ruleset when kernel lacks nft_log support
- Enable net.netfilter.nf_log_all_netns so log rules work from
non-init network namespaces
- Use temp file for nft ruleset loading instead of stdin for
compatibility with minimal VM guest environments
VM TAP networking (openshell-driver-vm):
- Replace iptables NAT/forwarding rules with nftables equivalents
- New nft_ruleset module for TAP network rule generation with unit
tests
- Atomic table-per-TAP-device lifecycle (create/destroy)
- Host-side rules provide NAT infrastructure and defense-in-depth
isolation (input chain restricts VM to gateway port only, forward
chain blocks unsolicited inbound); primary security enforcement
happens inside the VM guest via the sandbox supervisor's own rules
VM init script:
- Load nft kernel modules at sandbox init
- Enable nf_log_all_netns sysctl for bypass detection logging
OCSF / docs:
- Update firewall rule engine references from iptables to nftables
- Document host firewall interaction model and two-layer enforcement
architecture in VM driver README and compute drivers reference
Closes#1335
Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <rbryant@redhat.com>
* feat(gateway): add TOML configuration file (RFC 0003)
Introduces an opt-in --config / OPENSHELL_GATEWAY_CONFIG flag that loads a
TOML file with gateway-wide settings and per-driver tables. Source
precedence is CLI > env > file > built-in default, implemented via clap's
ValueSource so existing flags and env vars keep their priority.
Driver crates (kubernetes, docker, podman, vm) now derive Deserialize on
their config structs. SupervisorSideloadMethod gains Deserialize with
kebab-case rename. A per-driver inheritance allowlist on the loader side
overlays [openshell.gateway] shared defaults (default_image,
supervisor_image, image_pull_policy, guest_tls_*, ssh_handshake_skew_secs,
client_tls_secret_name, host_gateway_ip, enable_user_namespaces) onto
each [openshell.drivers.<name>] table before deserialization.
The Helm chart renders a new gateway-config ConfigMap and mounts it at
/etc/openshell/gateway.toml. The migrated OPENSHELL_* env entries are
dropped from the StatefulSet — only the Secret-backed
OPENSHELL_SSH_HANDSHAKE_SECRET remains. database_url stays on --db-url.
Adds examples/gateway/gateway.example.toml and updates architecture/gateway.md
with the source precedence and inheritance rules.
* docs(gateway): drop ssh_handshake_skew_secs and ssh_handshake_secret from examples
Both fields are scheduled for removal. Remove the example values and the
env-only note so the gateway.toml example and the architecture doc stop
recommending settings that will not exist much longer.
* docs(rfc): correct OPENSHELL_CONFIG to OPENSHELL_GATEWAY_CONFIG in RFC 0003
* docs(gateway): add per-driver TOML example configurations
Adds focused single-driver examples next to the comprehensive
gateway.example.toml: kubernetes, docker, podman, and microvm. Each one
demonstrates the realistic settings for that driver plus how shared
[openshell.gateway] defaults inherit into the driver table.
A new unit test (`checked_in_examples_parse`) loads every example through
the config_file loader so schema drift fails CI rather than silently
shipping a broken example.
* refactor(gateway): drop image_pull_policy from shared inheritance
Kubernetes and Podman use mutually-incompatible vocabularies for the same
TOML key:
- Kubernetes: `Always | IfNotPresent | Never` (free-form string passed
verbatim to the K8s API).
- Podman: `always | missing | never | newer` (strict lowercase enum
deserialised into `ImagePullPolicy`).
No value means the same thing in both drivers. Sharing the key at
`[openshell.gateway]` scope and inheriting it into every active driver's
table meant any value safe for one driver was either wrong or silently
dropped for the other (`IfNotPresent` → `ImagePullPolicy::Missing` after
`.unwrap_or_default()`). Operators run one driver per gateway, so the
"shared default" never pays for itself.
Make `image_pull_policy` driver-local:
- Remove the field from `GatewayFileSection` and from
`inheritable_keys()` for both Kubernetes and Podman.
- Drop the file→`RunArgs` merge for the gateway-scope key.
- Stop unconditionally clobbering the driver value with
`config.sandbox_image_pull_policy` in the runtime wiring — only apply
the CLI/env override when it was set (and, for Podman, only when it
parses into the lowercase enum).
- Move the key under `[openshell.drivers.kubernetes]` and
`[openshell.drivers.podman]` in every example, the RFC, the
architecture doc, and the Helm-rendered gateway ConfigMap.
The supervisor pull policy follows the same shape: it is K8s-only and
moves into `[openshell.drivers.kubernetes]` alongside `image_pull_policy`
in the Helm template.
* fix(gateway): address review feedback on TOML configuration
Resolves the P1 and P2 issues raised in PR #1317:
- Helm gateway ConfigMap moves `grpc_endpoint` under
`[openshell.drivers.kubernetes]` so the default install no longer fails
the gateway's `deny_unknown_fields` schema check.
- `kubernetes_config_from_file` and `podman_config_from_file` only let
the gateway-wide CLI/env `grpc_endpoint` overwrite the driver-table
value when it was actually supplied, preserving file-only configs.
- Kubernetes driver default `image_pull_policy` is now empty (was Podman
vocabulary "missing"), so default deployments let the Kubernetes API
apply its own policy instead of being rejected.
- New `disable_tls` gateway field plumbs `.Values.server.disableTls`
through the TOML ConfigMap instead of relying on env vars dropped from
the StatefulSet.
- StatefulSet pod template now carries a `checksum/gateway-config`
annotation so `helm upgrade` rolls pods when the ConfigMap changes.
- Auxiliary listener resolution preserves the full `SocketAddr` from
`health_bind_address` / `metrics_bind_address`, so a loopback-pinned
health port is not silently relocated onto the public bind address.
- `ssh_session_ttl_secs` from the file is now applied to `Config` (it
was previously accepted by the loader but never read).
New regression coverage: cli-level merge tests for the new fields plus
helm-unittest assertions for the ConfigMap shape, checksum annotation,
and `disable_tls` rendering.
* docs(gateway): consolidate gateway TOML examples into docs reference
Replaces the per-driver example files under examples/gateway/ with a
single published reference page at docs/reference/gateway-config.mdx
covering source precedence, layout, the full example, and the four
per-driver examples (Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, microVM). Drew flagged
during PR #1317 review that the examples belong with the user-facing
docs rather than in a sibling examples/ directory.
The cross-references in architecture/gateway.md and RFC 0003 are updated
to point at the new docs page; the round-trip test in config_file.rs is
removed (schema coverage stays on the inline parses_full_example test
and per-field merge tests — doc-snippet drift belongs in a separate
docs-lint, not in a cross-tree Rust unit test).
* refactor(core): move DEFAULT_K8S_NAMESPACE into K8s driver
The constant is Kubernetes-specific (used only by KubernetesComputeConfig's
Default impl) and does not belong in openshell-core. Relocate it to the
driver crate that owns the K8s vocabulary; openshell-core retains only
truly cross-cutting defaults.
* refactor(core): move Podman bridge default into Podman driver
DEFAULT_NETWORK_NAME is Podman vocabulary, consumed only by the Podman
driver. Also drops the unused DEFAULT_IMAGE_PULL_POLICY constant.
* docs(auth): scrub remaining SSH handshake secret references
Sweeps the trailing mentions left after the rebase: the gateway
config-file module doc, the Helm gateway-config ConfigMap header,
the gateway-config.mdx env-only note, and the RPM systemd unit
comment for init-gateway-env.sh.
* docs(gateway): clarify OPENSHELL_GRPC_ENDPOINT applies to all drivers
The previous comment implied the callback endpoint was Kubernetes-only,
but the value is propagated to every compute driver (Kubernetes, Docker,
Podman, VM) and must be reachable from wherever the sandbox runs.
* refactor(gateway): move driver options into config (#1394)
Signed-off-by: Drew Newberry <anewberry@nvidia.com>
* fix(e2e): regenerate gateway config via TOML for docker + podman harnesses
The gateway CLI flags moved into TOML config tables in 560550d2 (#1394),
which made every existing e2e/with-{docker,podman}-gateway.sh invocation
fail with "unexpected argument '--sandbox-namespace'" (and a long tail
of similar driver-specific options) before the gateway could even bind.
Replace the obsolete CLI flags with a synthesized
`[openshell.drivers.<driver>]` table written to `${STATE_DIR}/gateway.toml`
and passed via the new `--config` flag. Only the gateway-wide flags
that survived 560550d2 (bind-address, port, drivers, db-url, tls-*,
disable-tls, log-level, health-port) stay on the command line.
Both scripts get a small `toml_string` helper to properly TOML-quote
the values (the previous `%q` printf format produced bash-escape, not
TOML-escape). The Docker harness also corrects two field names that
diverged from the driver schema: `docker_network_name` →
`network_name`, and the supervisor binary/image plumbing now reads
through to `supervisor_bin` / `supervisor_image` in the same table.
The Podman harness drops `--ssh-gateway-port` (deleted in 560550d2 —
gRPC + SSH are multiplexed on the same port now) and substitutes
`network_name` + `gateway_port` for the obsolete `--sandbox-namespace`
(which the Podman driver never had as a typed field).
* fix(core): swap bind-only 0.0.0.0 SSH gateway host for cluster URL host
CLI's resolve_ssh_gateway treated 0.0.0.0 as a loopback "keep as-is"
when the cluster URL was also loopback, so the SSH proxy connected to
0.0.0.0:port. The unspecified address is never a valid connect target
and is not present in any TLS cert SAN, which produced BadCertificate
TLS handshake failures during `openshell sandbox create -- ...` in
docker/podman e2e (e.g. bypass_detection).
Resolution: when the server returns 0.0.0.0 or :: as the gateway host
and both endpoints are loopback, fall back to the cluster URL's host
(which the CLI is already using to reach the gateway, so it must
resolve and match the cert).
* fix(e2e): repair podman harness on macOS
Podman 5.x with the applehv/libkrun provider no longer creates the legacy
~/.local/share/containers/podman/machine/podman.sock symlink, and
`podman system service` is a Linux-only subcommand — the macOS client
delegates the API service to the VM. Both assumptions in the harness
were stale, so the script tried to start a temporary service that podman
rejected with "unknown flag: --time".
- Discover the macOS socket via `podman machine inspect` instead of the
hardcoded path.
- On Darwin, fail fast with a "start podman machine" message rather than
attempting the Linux-only `podman system service` fallback.
- Write socket_path into [openshell.drivers.podman] so the in-process
driver picks up the discovered socket; the driver reads TOML only
after the config refactor (560550d2), so OPENSHELL_PODMAN_SOCKET alone
was no longer enough.
* fix(server): use clone_from for TLS client CA assignment
clippy 1.95.0 rejects assigning the result of `Clone::clone()` to an
existing variable under `-D warnings` (`assigning_clones`). Switch to
`clone_from(&...)` to satisfy the lint and avoid the redundant
allocation.
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Signed-off-by: Drew Newberry <anewberry@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Drew Newberry <anewberry@nvidia.com>
Clippy's collapsible_if lint fails `mise run rust:lint` on main because
of the nested `if let Ok(..) { if ping().is_ok() { .. } }` pattern in
`connect_local_container_engine`. Introduced by 44e843ed
("feat(vm): fall back to Podman socket when Docker is unavailable",
#1370). Rewrite both blocks using `&&` let-chains.
* test(e2e): add bypass detection test for sandbox REJECT rules
Validates that direct TCP connections bypassing the HTTP CONNECT proxy
are rejected immediately (ECONNREFUSED) rather than hanging until a
network timeout. This is implementation-agnostic — it tests observable
kernel behavior regardless of whether rules are installed via iptables
or nftables.
* feat(vm): fall back to Podman socket when Docker is unavailable
The VM driver resolves sandbox images from a local container engine
before falling back to registry pulls. Previously it only checked
Docker. Now it tries the Podman socket as a fallback, since Podman
exposes a Docker-compatible API via bollard.
On Linux, enable the Podman API socket with:
systemctl --user start podman.socket
Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <russell.bryant@gmail.com>
* chore(vm): fix formatting
Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <russell.bryant@gmail.com>
* refactor(vm): rename docker-specific identifiers to engine-neutral names
Rename resolve_local_docker_image → resolve_local_container_image,
local_docker_image_platform_mismatch → local_image_platform_mismatch,
and the local docker variable → engine since the function now supports
both Docker and Podman backends.
Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <russell.bryant@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <russell.bryant@gmail.com>
The nftables log statement requires CONFIG_NFT_LOG, which was not
included in the VM guest kernel config. Without it, nft rejects
rules containing the log keyword with "No such file or directory".
On Linux non-root hosts, virtiofs maps guest root to the host user,
so chown inside the VM is denied. This causes the init script to
abort under set -e, preventing the sandbox from starting.
Make the chown best-effort: if it fails, log a warning and continue.
The supervisor's own filesystem preparation handles ownership for the
paths that matter, so the sandbox works correctly without it.
This is a pragmatic workaround — anything that would break due to
the failed chown will still break, just later and with a clearer
error rather than a cryptic boot failure. In practice the sandbox
functions normally because the supervisor sets up its own working
directories.
Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <russell.bryant@gmail.com>
* refactor!(auth): drop SSH handshake secret in favor of mTLS
The OPENSHELL_SSH_HANDSHAKE_SECRET / x-sandbox-secret mechanism was
misnamed: it does not authenticate SSH (which flows over the
RelayStream gRPC RPC and is gated by mTLS plus supervisor Unix-socket
permissions). It only gated a small set of sandbox-to-gateway
control-plane RPCs, and production deployments already enforce mTLS
on that channel — so the shared secret was redundant.
Replace the secret check with an mTLS-presence marker. Sandbox-class
methods (ReportPolicyStatus, PushSandboxLogs,
GetSandboxProviderEnvironment, SubmitPolicyAnalysis, GetSandboxConfig,
GetInferenceBundle) accept callers without a Bearer token; the gRPC
mTLS handshake is the trust boundary. Dual-auth methods treat
Bearer-present as full-scope CLI access and Bearer-absent as
sandbox-restricted scope via validate_sandbox_caller_update.
Drops the secret from all drivers (K8s, Podman, VM), the sandbox gRPC
interceptor, the Helm chart (values + pre-install hook + StatefulSet
env), the RPM bootstrap script, the man pages, and the
debug-openshell-cluster skill. Also removes the never-read
ssh_handshake_skew_secs flag and config field.
BREAKING CHANGE: --ssh-handshake-secret / OPENSHELL_SSH_HANDSHAKE_SECRET
and --ssh-handshake-skew-secs / OPENSHELL_SSH_HANDSHAKE_SKEW_SECS are
removed from the gateway, sandbox, and all driver binaries. The
openshell-ssh-handshake K8s Secret is no longer managed by the chart;
operators may delete the orphan. Deployments using
--disable-gateway-auth must enforce caller authentication at the
fronting proxy, since the gateway no longer validates a per-request
secret on sandbox-class methods.
Refs OS-174.
* docs(auth): scrub residual SSH handshake secret references
Sweep across docs, e2e scripts, the Podman driver README/NETWORKING
notes, the RPM/Helm/setup guides, the gateway man page, and RFC 0003
to remove instructions and examples that still referenced
OPENSHELL_SSH_HANDSHAKE_SECRET / --ssh-handshake-secret /
ssh_handshake_skew_secs. The mechanism is gone; nothing should still
suggest setting it. Negative-assertion regression tests are kept so
the env var cannot silently be re-introduced.
* test(drivers): drop SSH handshake secret negative-assertion tests
The supporting code, env vars, CLI flags, and config plumbing are
gone — these tests asserted absence of strings that no longer have
any path to being set. Remove the guards from the Docker, Podman,
Kubernetes, and VM driver test modules.
Consolidate shared constants and helpers into openshell-core to avoid
duplicate definitions scattered across crates. Adds OPENSHELL_SANDBOX
to the sandbox_env module so all drivers and the sandbox supervisor
reference it via a typed constant rather than string literals, matching
the existing pattern for SANDBOX_ID, ENDPOINT, and the other env vars.
When the VM driver extracts OCI image layers on a non-root host (e.g.
macOS UID 501), fs::copy and tar::unpack create files owned by the host
user. The sandbox user inside the VM then cannot write to its own home
directory.
Add a conditional chown in the VM init script that detects the mismatch
and fixes ownership before the supervisor starts. The check is skipped
when ownership is already correct (e.g. Linux-as-root extraction).
Signed-off-by: Florent Benoit <fbenoit@redhat.com>
* Adding qemu vm driver support with GPU pass-through
Signed-off-by: Vincent Caux-Brisebois <vcauxbrisebo@nvidia.com>
* Add GPU rootfs variant, harden VFIO binding, and fix networking and supervisor reliability issues discovered during GPU VM bring-up.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Caux-Brisebois <vcauxbrisebo@nvidia.com>
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Signed-off-by: Vincent Caux-Brisebois <vcauxbrisebo@nvidia.com>
Drew Newberry