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# Bento deploy units |
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`bentod` runs as a systemd **user** service on fw13 (the x86_64 build gate). |
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Unlike `sandod` (a hardened system service with a dedicated `sando` user), |
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bentod is a user service under the operator: building the apps needs the |
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operator's SSH keys (to the tailnet build hosts and the mbp ops-agent), the app |
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checkouts under `~/Code/Apps`, and the `_private` layer for signing secrets |
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(`secrets_root`). A dedicated system user can't reach those without copying keys |
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and bind-mounting home — so a user service is the right model, and it lets the |
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operator redeploy bentod with `systemctl --user restart` (no sudo). |
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## Files |
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| `bentod.service` | `~/.config/systemd/user/` | The user service unit. | |
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| `bento-daemon.toml.example` | `~/.config/bento/bento-daemon.toml` | Daemon-local config (paths + listen). Absolute paths only — no shell expansion. | |
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| `bento.toml.example` | `~/.config/bento/bento.toml` | Build topology (hosts + apps). `repo` paths are tilde-expanded; `repo_by_host` overrides the path for one host. | |
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| (none, hand-written 0600) | `~/.config/bento/bento.env` | `BENTO_API_TOKEN=...` for a tailnet bind. Read by the unit's `EnvironmentFile=-`, so a loopback install can leave it absent. No example file ships: it holds a secret. | |
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## Stand-up (no root except enable-linger) |
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```sh |
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# 1. Build + install the binary |
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cd ~/Code/MNW/bento/daemon && cargo build --release |
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install -D -m 0755 target/release/bentod ~/.local/bin/bentod |
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# 2. Config + state dirs |
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mkdir -p ~/.config/bento ~/.local/state/bento/logs ~/Dist |
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install -m 0644 ~/Code/MNW/bento/deploy/bento-daemon.toml.example ~/.config/bento/bento-daemon.toml |
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install -m 0644 ~/Code/MNW/bento/deploy/bento.toml.example ~/.config/bento/bento.toml |
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# (edit the two configs: absolute home paths, real host/app rows) |
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# 3. Service |
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mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user |
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install -m 0644 ~/Code/MNW/bento/deploy/bentod.service ~/.config/systemd/user/ |
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loginctl enable-linger "$USER" |
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systemctl --user daemon-reload |
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systemctl --user enable --now bentod |
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# 4. Verify (address must match `listen` in bento-daemon.toml, see Auth below) |
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curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8765/state | python3 -m json.tool |
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``` |
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## Where artifacts end up |
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Each target's `collect` lands locally at `<dist_root>/<app>/<version>/<target>/` |
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and is then deposited at `<root>/<app>/<version>/<target>/` on the archive host |
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named by the `[archive]` table. Same layout both sides, so the two are one tree |
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at two addresses. |
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astra holds the archive: always on, on the tailnet, and already the aarch64 build |
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host and git mirror, so it is the one box every other build host can reach. That |
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is what gives "where is the AppImage for goingson 1.4.0" a single answer covering |
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the macOS and Windows targets too, rather than one per machine that built them. |
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The archive host needs the directory to exist and to be writable by the SSH user |
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bentod reaches it as; everything below it is created per release. |
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```sh |
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ssh astra 'sudo install -d -o "$USER" -g "$USER" -m 0755 /var/lib/bento/artifacts' |
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``` |
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Retention prunes `dist_root` and `logs_root` on the daemon box and never touches |
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the archive: the archived copy is the one meant to outlive them. A failed deposit |
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fails that target's `collect` step, before sign and publish. Leave the `[archive]` |
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table out to skip archiving entirely. |
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## Handing an artifact to Sando |
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Bento builds and packages; Sando decides whether a thing advances a stage. For a |
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product Sando deploys, a `[handoff.<app>]` table names where its bytes go after |
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the recipe finishes: |
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```toml |
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[handoff.pom] |
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host = "sando@fw13" |
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staging_root = "/srv/sando/staging" |
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url = "http://100.103.89.95:7766" |
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sando_app = "pom" |
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token_file = "sando/api-token" |
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``` |
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Per target, the collect directory is rsynced to |
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`<staging_root>/<app>-<version>-<target>/` and sandod is asked to take it in. |
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Sando proves the bundle against its record before anything else happens, so a |
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transfer that dropped or corrupted a file is refused with the file named. |
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Two things about the transfer are load-bearing. The artifact record does **not** |
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travel with the bytes: it names the digest of the bundle, the digest covers every |
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file in the bundle, so a record copied in among the artifacts would change the |
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digest it names. It goes in the request body. And the staging directory is |
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mirrored with `--delete` rather than merged, so a retry after a partial transfer |
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holds exactly this attempt — a leftover file is an extra file, and an extra file |
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is a manifest mismatch that would get an honest bundle refused. |
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`host` is usually the same machine bentod runs on, and still goes through ssh: |
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sandod runs as `sando`, bentod as a user unit, and `sando@fw13` lands the bytes |
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owned by the process that has to rename them without a group or an ACL on the |
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staging directory. That means bentod's user needs an SSH key in `sando`'s |
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`authorized_keys`, and the staging directory has to exist: |
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```sh |
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ssh sando@fw13 'install -d -m 0755 /srv/sando/staging' |
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``` |
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A failed handoff fails that target run at a `handoff` step, which is a step no |
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recipe runs — the daemon performs it after the recipe, and the failure needs a |
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column of its own rather than contradicting a green `collect`. Leave the table |
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out for every app Sando does not deploy, which is most of them. |
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## Auth (CF2) |
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On a loopback bind, build triggers are reachable only from the daemon's own |
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host, so no token is required. To operate bentod over the tailnet, bind the |
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tailnet IP in `bento-daemon.toml` and set `BENTO_API_TOKEN` via an |
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`EnvironmentFile` in the unit. bentod refuses to start on a non-loopback bind |
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without it (same posture as Sando's `SANDO_API_TOKEN`). |
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**fw13 runs the second form**, not the loopback default the example config |
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ships. `listen` is the tailnet address and `/build` and `/retry` require the |
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bearer token, so a `127.0.0.1` curl gets no answer at all rather than an auth |
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error. Read the address out of the config and the token out of its own file |
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rather than passing either on a command line: |
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```sh |
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set -a; . ~/.config/bento/bento.env; set +a |
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curl -s -X POST http://$(grep -oP '(?<=^listen = ")[^"]+' ~/.config/bento/bento-daemon.toml)/build \ |
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-H "authorization: Bearer $BENTO_API_TOKEN" -H 'content-type: application/json' \ |
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-d '{"app":"makeover-webview","version":"0.5.1"}' |
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``` |
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`/state`, `/status.json` and the log endpoints are read-only and unauthed, so |
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watching a run needs the address but not the token. |
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## Recipes |
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A real `/build` reads `<app>/<recipe_dir>/<platform>.rhai` from each app's |
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checkout. The recipes now exist, one per platform per app: |
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| goingson | yes | yes | yes | yes (unsigned, unsupported) | |
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| audiofiles | yes | — (egui, no iOS) | yes | yes (unsigned, unsupported) | |
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| balanced_breakfast | pending¹ | pending¹ | yes | yes (unsigned, unsupported) | |
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¹ BB has no Developer ID signing / notarization infra or iOS project yet, so its |
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macOS/iOS recipes are deferred until that lands. BB ships in a later wave. |
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A library crate (`kind = "library"` in its own `bento.toml`) has no per-platform |
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artifact, so the runner reads a single `publish.rhai` instead of the table above. |
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Every library configured in the topology now carries one: `makeover`, |
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`makeover-geometry`, `makeover-build`, `makeover-webview`, `makeover-layout`, |
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`pter`, `everycycle`, `supernote-push`, `alloy_tui`. That recipe asserts HEAD is |
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exactly a tag before it uploads, so a release wants `git tag -a v<version>` |
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first; a crate published by hand before it was wired up has no such tag, and its |
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next release is the one that gets one. |
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A `linux.rhai` serves both arches — `build_host()` resolves to the native host |
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the topology assigns the target (`linux/x86_64` → fw13, `linux/aarch64` → astra), |
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so there is no cross-compilation and no hard-coded host name. macOS/iOS recipes |
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run on the mbp `agent`-transport host where the Developer ID key is usable. |
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### The prebuild gate |
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Every recipe runs a `prebuild` step between checkout and build: |
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cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets <features> -- -D warnings |
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cargo test --workspace <features> |
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``` |
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`sh_ok` aborts the recipe on a non-zero exit, and a failed step lands in the |
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step ledger, so a red gate bars publish as well as build. It runs on the target's |
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own build host rather than once centrally: a break confined to one platform |
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(cfg-gated code, a Windows path) is then caught on the machine that would have |
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shipped it. The cost is that the suite runs once per target. |
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Features come from `feature_flags()`, so the gate compiles the same |
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configuration the release build does. |
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### Recipe host-function vocabulary |
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Beyond `step`/`sh`/`sh_ok`/`log`/`collect`/`publish`/`secret`/`env` and the |
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macOS helpers (`codesign`/`notarize`/`staple`/`verify_gatekeeper`/`keychain_*`), |
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recipes can read their own context: |
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| `version()` | the version being built (e.g. `"0.4.2"`) | |
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| `build_host()` | the host this target builds on (e.g. `"fw13"`) | |
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| `repo()` | the app's checkout path on this target's build host (`~`-prefixed on unix; `cd` into it, commands don't auto-cd) | |
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| `target()` / `platform()` / `arch()` | `"linux/x86_64"` / `"linux"` / `"x86_64"` | |
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Non-Tauri apps (audiofiles) set `version_path` in the topology to the crate |
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`Cargo.toml` carrying the version, since they have no `tauri.conf.json`. |
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