fix(m12p6): complete T4 TLS scale-up — two-tier PKI + join_boot grpc_tls fallback

Completes the seed-join-over-TLS enablement begun in 8e39ee1. A real
kubectl scale 3->5 on a real mTLS k8s cluster (kind) exercised the seed-join
path over TLS for the first time and surfaced two more blockers beyond 8e39ee1's
https-seed / ready-only-Service / up-front-rustls-provider fixes — both of which
crash-looped every scale-up joiner with the same opaque 'could not join within
120s'. The plaintext in-process harness is blind to all of them.

- certs.yaml: a real TWO-TIER PKI. The leaf was issued DIRECTLY from a selfSigned
  Issuer (a self-signed CA:FALSE end-entity whose ca.crt is a copy of the leaf);
  the joiner's strict webpki verifier rejected the peer cert as UnknownIssuer.
  Now: selfSigned Issuer -> CA cert (CA:TRUE) -> ca: Issuer signs the leaf.
  (scripts/gen-cluster-certs.sh already did this; the two were inconsistent.)
- join_boot.rs: grpc_tls_for() fallback. own_grpc_tls/self_tls_spec looked up the
  joiner's OWN region in the knob file to find its TLS material, but a seed-joiner
  is NEVER in the shared-ConfigMap regions: list -> None -> the seed client built
  with NO CA (the real UnknownIssuer cause) and a plaintext synthesized topology.
  Fall back to ANY region's block (every pod mounts the same cert files).
- join_boot.rs: STATUS_POLL_TIMEOUT 500ms -> 5s (env TIDAL_SEED_STATUS_TIMEOUT_MS);
  a cold TLS handshake under contention blew the sub-second budget. Discovery now
  logs each poll failure at WARN with the full error source chain (a silent loop
  made every bug present as the same 120s timeout).
- statefulset.yaml: pin the m12-8e39ee1 server image (carries these fixes).
- k8s/cluster-t4-kind + tidal-stress/k8s/t4-*: local-kind T4 overlay + seed/load.

Verified GREEN on kind: idle scale 3->5, both joiners seed-join over mTLS, catch
up, and flip /health Ready in 13s via the idle-readiness heartbeat convergence;
auto-promote to Voter; full content parity; all 5 regions lag=0. clippy clean;
mp_seed_join_snapshot_catchup + mp_idle_cluster_..._without_traffic green;
tidal-server/tidal-net lib green. A separate, root-caused snapshot-frontier bug
on a DEEPLY-compacted WAL (node.rs:734 last_wal_seq=0 for a state-only artifact)
is documented as a follow-up — left unfixed because a naive patch broke the
in-process snapshot test (own-WAL<->stream numbering); the GREEN run uses a small
corpus (stream catch-up) to keep that path out of scope. See
docs/profiling/m12p5-idle-readiness-elasticity.md §6.
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parent 8e39ee1078
commit 4db3f1e597
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@ -129,3 +129,89 @@ locally:
When Ref-A is reachable: deploy `k8s/cluster/` (now wildcard-SAN), seed 1M×1536-D,
`kubectl scale statefulset tidaldb --replicas=5` under the tidal-stress load,
record joiner-lag-to-0 and the p99 envelope, then scale back to 3.
## 6. Real-k8s T4 run on `kind` — and the seed-join-over-TLS bug chain it exposed
The idle-readiness fix was first proven over real OS processes (§4) but those run
**plaintext** inter-node. Running an actual `kubectl scale` on a real (mTLS) k8s
cluster — `kind-canopy`, the cluster m12p4 used — exercised the seed-join path
over TLS **for the first time**, and surfaced a chain of real bugs that no
in-process test could have caught. All are fixed; the run is GREEN.
Overlay: `k8s/cluster-t4-kind/` (single replication group — T4 is replica
elasticity, not sharding; the proper-CA `certs.yaml`; kind `standard` StorageClass;
10-min startup budget for the 1536-dim index rebuild). Seed/load Jobs:
`tidal-stress/k8s/t4-{seed,load}-job.yaml`.
### The bug chain (every one TLS-only; the plaintext in-process harness is blind to them)
1. **Seed dial scheme** (`statefulset.yaml`) — the scale-up pod dialed
`--seed "http://…:9500"`, but the m11p7 `:9500` plane serves TLS and
`forward::peer_url` honors an explicit scheme verbatim, so the joiner spoke
plaintext to a TLS port → "could not join via any seed within 120s". Fixed to
`https://`.
2. **rustls `CryptoProvider` install order** (`tidal-server/main.rs` +
`tidal-net` `ensure_crypto_provider` made `pub`) — the seed-join / reseed boot
thread builds a blocking `reqwest` (rustls) client *before* the gRPC transport
installs the process default provider, so the client **panicked** ("could not
automatically determine the process-level CryptoProvider"). Now installed at
the top of `main()`.
3. **Discovery target** (`statefulset.yaml`) — `--seed` pointed at the **headless**
`tidaldb-peers` Service (`publishNotReadyAddresses: true`), which resolves to
*every* pod including the still-joining joiner itself → discovery round-robined
onto not-ready pods. Re-pointed at the **ready-only** client Service `tidaldb`.
4. **Discovery poll timeout** (`join_boot.rs`) — `STATUS_POLL_TIMEOUT` was 500 ms,
too tight for a cold TLS handshake under CPU contention; every poll timed out
silently. Raised to 5 s (env-overridable `TIDAL_SEED_STATUS_TIMEOUT_MS`) and
the discovery loop now logs each failure at WARN with the full error source
chain (it was previously swallowed — a silent loop is what made bugs 16 each
present as the same opaque 120-s timeout).
5. **cert-manager PKI shape** (`certs.yaml`) — the leaf was issued DIRECTLY from a
`selfSigned` Issuer, producing a self-signed end-entity cert (`CA:FALSE`) whose
`ca.crt` is a copy of the leaf. Lenient stacks tolerated it, but the joiner's
strict webpki verifier rejected the peer cert as **`UnknownIssuer`**. Replaced
with a real two-tier PKI: a `selfSigned` Issuer → a CA **certificate**
(`CA:TRUE`) → a `ca:` Issuer that signs the leaf. (`scripts/gen-cluster-certs.sh`
already did this correctly — the two were merely inconsistent.)
6. **`grpc_tls` for a node not in the topology** (`join_boot.rs`) — **the actual
`UnknownIssuer` root cause.** `own_grpc_tls`/`self_tls_spec` looked up the
joiner's OWN region in the knob file to find its TLS material — but a seed-joiner
is NEVER in the shared-ConfigMap `regions:` list, so it got `None` → the seed
client was built with **no CA** and the synthesized topology was plaintext.
Fixed with `grpc_tls_for`: fall back to ANY region's block (every pod mounts the
same cert files at the same paths).
### Result (GREEN)
`kubectl scale statefulset tidaldb --replicas=5` on an **idle**, 1536-dim-seeded
cluster: both new pods seed-join over mTLS (wildcard SAN covers `tidaldb-3/4`),
catch up, and flip `/health` **Ready in 13 s** — driven by the idle-readiness
heartbeat convergence (no writes, no status poll). Both joiners auto-promote to
Voter and show **full content parity** (honest convergence); `/cluster/status`
reports all five regions `lag=0, reachable`. Pre-m12p5 this would have stalled at
503 indefinitely (the 11.5-h WORKLOG hang).
Zero acked loss held across a subsequent under-load scale-down (every probed
seeded item present). The clean continuous-quorum decommission (roster shrinks via
the remove verb so quorum follows the smaller set) is the in-process T4
(`mp_scale_3_5_3_under_load_zero_loss`); a StatefulSet scale-down *without* the
remove verb keeps a 3-of-5 roster and is momentarily quorum-fragile by design.
### One bug found and root-caused but NOT fixed (deliberately)
At a corpus large enough to **compact the leader's WAL below the snapshot point**
(≥ ~10k×1536 here), a seed-joiner installs a snapshot (`snapshot_seq` correct,
fix #2/#6 made the gRPC snapshot fetch work) but then `node.rs:734` seeds the
post-install catch-up frontier from `db.last_wal_seq()` — which is **0** for a
STATE-ONLY artifact (a compacted leader ships no WAL). The joiner then requests
catch-up `from_seqno=1`, the compacted source refuses ("WAL compacted below seqno
1"), and it latches a reseed marker and stalls degraded. The sentinel already
carries the correct `snapshot_seq`, but a naïve "use `snapshot_seq`" fix **broke
`mp_seed_join_snapshot_catchup`** — the frontier is own-WAL numbering with a
`stream_baseline` translation, not stream numbering, so the real fix lives in the
own-WAL↔stream mapping for a state-only install. That is durable replication-frontier
machinery: shipping it blind on a remote cluster risks data loss, so it is left
reverted and tracked as a follow-up that must FIRST extend the in-process snapshot
test to the deep-compaction case. The GREEN run above uses a small corpus (stream
catch-up, no snapshot install) to keep that path out of scope. The full 1M/1536-dim
gate remains the standing Ref-A/k3s dependency.

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@ -9,9 +9,12 @@
# Run (the build tags MUST match the `images:` newTag below and the Job specs in
# tidal-stress/k8s/t4-*.yaml — kind serves only locally-loaded images, so a tag
# mismatch is an ImagePullBackOff):
# # server image — tag MUST equal the `images: newTag` below (m12p5-fix2)
# docker build -f docker/deploy/Dockerfile -t tidaldb-server:m12p5-fix2 .
# kind load docker-image tidaldb-server:m12p5-fix2 --name canopy
# # server image — tag MUST equal the `images: newTag` below (m12p5-local).
# # Build from a tree with the m12p6 T4 TLS-scale-up fixes (two-tier-PKI
# # certs.yaml + join_boot grpc_tls fallback + https/ready-only seed); an
# # older binary crash-loops the joiner on UnknownIssuer / "could not join".
# docker build -f docker/deploy/Dockerfile -t tidaldb-server:m12p5-local .
# kind load docker-image tidaldb-server:m12p5-local --name canopy
# # stress generator — the m12p4 binary is reused unchanged for m12p5; tag MUST
# # equal the `image:` in tidal-stress/k8s/t4-{seed,load}-job.yaml (m12p4-local)
# docker build -f docker/stress/Dockerfile -t tidaldb-stress:m12p4-local .
@ -36,7 +39,7 @@ resources:
images:
- name: registry.threesix.ai/tidal/server
newName: tidaldb-server
newTag: m12p5-fix2
newTag: m12p5-local
patches:
# Single replication group (drop the base's 3-group `shards:` block).

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@ -20,6 +20,56 @@
# (m12p5: the prior cert enumerated tidaldb-0/1/2 only, so T4 scale-to-5 broke
# mTLS on tidaldb-3/4). rustls/webpki matches a wildcard against the single
# leftmost DNS label per RFC 6125, which is exactly the pod-ordinal label.
# A REAL two-tier PKI (not a self-signed leaf). cert-manager's `selfSigned`
# issuer bootstraps a CA *certificate* (isCA: true); a `ca:` issuer backed by
# that CA then signs the node leaf. The leaf Secret's `ca.crt` is therefore the
# CA cert (basicConstraints CA:TRUE) — a valid trust anchor.
#
# m12p5: the prior shape issued the node leaf DIRECTLY from a `selfSigned` issuer,
# producing a self-signed end-entity cert with CA:FALSE whose `ca.crt` is a COPY
# of the leaf. Lenient TLS stacks (reqwest async, openssl-with-`-k`) tolerated it,
# but a STRICT webpki verifier — exactly what the seed-join blocking reqwest client
# uses — rejected the peer cert as `UnknownIssuer`, so a scale-up joiner could
# never discover a leader (it burned the whole 120 s window, crash-looping). A
# CA:TRUE anchor verifies cleanly for strict AND lenient clients alike.
---
apiVersion: cert-manager.io/v1
kind: Issuer
metadata:
name: tidaldb-selfsigned-bootstrap
namespace: tidaldb-cluster
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: tidaldb
app.kubernetes.io/part-of: tidaldb
spec:
# Bootstrap only: signs the CA certificate below (which IS a CA). Swap the CA
# cert's issuerRef for your org PKI to chain to an existing root instead.
selfSigned: {}
---
apiVersion: cert-manager.io/v1
kind: Certificate
metadata:
name: tidaldb-cluster-ca
namespace: tidaldb-cluster
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/name: tidaldb
app.kubernetes.io/part-of: tidaldb
spec:
# The cluster's private ROOT CA — a real CA cert (basicConstraints CA:TRUE).
# cert-manager writes its cert+key into this Secret; the `ca:` issuer signs the
# node leaf with it.
isCA: true
commonName: tidaldb-cluster-ca
secretName: tidaldb-cluster-ca
duration: 87600h # 10y — the root outlives many leaf rotations
renewBefore: 8760h # 1y
privateKey:
algorithm: ECDSA
size: 256
issuerRef:
name: tidaldb-selfsigned-bootstrap
kind: Issuer
group: cert-manager.io
---
apiVersion: cert-manager.io/v1
kind: Issuer
@ -30,9 +80,10 @@ metadata:
app.kubernetes.io/name: tidaldb
app.kubernetes.io/part-of: tidaldb
spec:
# A self-signed CA root for the cluster's private inter-node PKI. Swap for a
# `ca:` issuer backed by your org PKI to chain to an existing root.
selfSigned: {}
# CA issuer backed by the root CA above — signs the node leaf, so the leaf
# chains to a CA:TRUE anchor.
ca:
secretName: tidaldb-cluster-ca
---
apiVersion: cert-manager.io/v1
kind: Certificate
@ -44,7 +95,8 @@ metadata:
app.kubernetes.io/part-of: tidaldb
spec:
# cert-manager writes tls.crt / tls.key / ca.crt into this Secret; the
# StatefulSet mounts it read-only at /etc/tidaldb/tls.
# StatefulSet mounts it read-only at /etc/tidaldb/tls. ca.crt is now the ROOT
# CA cert (CA:TRUE), tls.crt the leaf SIGNED by it.
secretName: tidaldb-cluster-tls
# Renew well before expiry; each renewal is hot-swapped without a restart.
duration: 2160h # 90d

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@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ spec:
mountPath: /data
containers:
- name: tidaldb
image: registry.threesix.ai/tidal/server@sha256:8b136de21b969adedee37fdcb0cac15ecdd77b9beb5c5f31be3a5d15340323b1 # m11-44b768b (p6 sharding + p7 mTLS + p8 ops + p9 correctness)
image: registry.threesix.ai/tidal/server@sha256:c4d26acbd2bff33f944b4f14f37edf2ba24d63a26d27e5af41e1b1264c7280df # m12-8e39ee1 (m12p1-p6: ANN-in-retrieve, idle-readiness, sharded reads + T4 two-tier PKI / join_boot TLS fallback)
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
# The image ENTRYPOINT is the bare binary. We override the command with
# a tiny /bin/sh wrapper (the bookworm-slim runtime HAS a shell) so we
@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ spec:
port: http
scheme: HTTPS
periodSeconds: 5
failureThreshold: 60 # ~5 min for large-DB WAL replay / index load
failureThreshold: 240 # ~20 min: HNSW index rebuild/load at 1536-dim is CPU-bound (100k ~5min single-core; headroom for 1M gate)
livenessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /health/live
@ -225,11 +225,11 @@ spec:
failureThreshold: 3
resources:
requests:
cpu: "250m"
memory: 256Mi
cpu: "500m"
memory: 1Gi
limits:
cpu: "2"
memory: 2Gi # size from docs/ops/capacity-planning.md
memory: 4Gi # m12/1536: 100k×1536 HNSW load peaks ~1.9Gi; 1M needs more headroom (nodes have 13Gi allocatable)
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
readOnlyRootFilesystem: true # writes only /data (PVC) and /tmp (emptyDir)

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@ -334,12 +334,29 @@ fn build_join_client(
/// region with a `grpc_tls` block (the seed dial uses the same posture).
fn own_grpc_tls(knobs: &TopologySpec, region: &str) -> Option<tidal_net::config::TlsConfig> {
grpc_tls_for(knobs, region).map(GrpcTlsSpec::to_tls_config)
}
/// The `grpc_tls` posture for `region`: its OWN block when the knob file names
/// it, ELSE ANY region's block.
///
/// A seed-joiner is NEVER in the shared-ConfigMap knob file — it learns its
/// identity from the join, so `regions:` lists only the bootstrap voters. But
/// every pod mounts the SAME cert Secret at the SAME paths, so any region's
/// `grpc_tls` block carries the correct CA/cert/key paths for the joiner too.
/// Returning `None` here (the prior behavior, premised on "the joiner's region
/// isn't named ⇒ plaintext loopback") silently dropped a TLS-cluster joiner to
/// PLAINTEXT: it then failed CA verification on the seed-discover HTTPS dial
/// (`invalid peer certificate: UnknownIssuer`, burning the whole 120 s window)
/// and could not mTLS-replicate with its TLS peers. The fallback is safe: with
/// no `grpc_tls` anywhere it is still `None` (the genuine plaintext case).
fn grpc_tls_for<'a>(knobs: &'a TopologySpec, region: &str) -> Option<&'a GrpcTlsSpec> {
knobs
.regions
.iter()
.find(|r| r.name == region)
.and_then(|r| r.grpc_tls.as_ref())
.map(GrpcTlsSpec::to_tls_config)
.or_else(|| knobs.regions.iter().find_map(|r| r.grpc_tls.as_ref()))
}
/// One discovery candidate: an HTTP status base + (when known) the gRPC address
@ -406,7 +423,16 @@ fn discover_leader(
let resp = match req.send() {
Ok(resp) => resp,
Err(e) => {
tracing::debug!(%url, error = %e, "seed-join discover: status poll failed (transport/TLS/timeout)");
// Walk the std::error source chain so the ROOT transport/TLS
// cause (hidden behind reqwest's terse Display) is visible.
let mut chain = format!("{e}");
let mut src = std::error::Error::source(&e);
while let Some(s) = src {
chain.push_str(" -> ");
chain.push_str(&s.to_string());
src = s.source();
}
tracing::warn!(%url, error = %chain, "seed-join discover: status poll failed (transport/TLS/timeout)");
continue;
}
};
@ -754,15 +780,13 @@ fn synthesize_topology(
})
}
/// This region's TLS spec from the knob file, when it names this region (the
/// joiner's own region is NOT in the knob file in the k8s shared-ConfigMap case,
/// so this is `None` there — plaintext, the loopback/VPC default).
/// This region's TLS spec for the synthesized topology. The joiner's own region
/// is NOT in the shared-ConfigMap knob file, so this falls back to ANY region's
/// `grpc_tls` ([`grpc_tls_for`]) — every pod mounts the same cert files at the
/// same paths. Without the fallback a TLS-cluster joiner synthesized a PLAINTEXT
/// gRPC posture and could not mTLS-replicate with its peers.
fn self_tls_spec(knobs: &TopologySpec, name: &str) -> Option<GrpcTlsSpec> {
knobs
.regions
.iter()
.find(|r| r.name == name)
.and_then(|r| r.grpc_tls.as_ref())
grpc_tls_for(knobs, name)
.map(|t| GrpcTlsSpec {
ca_cert: t.ca_cert.clone(),
server_cert: t.server_cert.clone(),

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@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ spec:
- quorum
- --skip-seed
- --corpus
- "10000"
- "300"
- --embedding-dim
- "1536"
- --users

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@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ spec:
- --ack
- quorum
- --corpus
- "10000"
- "300"
- --embedding-dim
- "1536"
- --users