qinglong/packages/ql3-cluster-admin/README.md

@qinglong/cluster-admin

This private QingLong 3.0 package is a short-lived cluster administration authority. It is intentionally separate from the resident cluster-control artifact and requires a distinct PostgreSQL role.

The admin role can append Identity/API Credential mutations and their security audit in one serializable transaction, and can perform bounded read-only audit queries. It cannot read or mutate Run, Project or RoleBinding data, cannot update/delete credential history, and cannot delete audit events.

Prompt output lifecycle work remains outside the resident control plane. The explicit prompt-output-gc-process runs one bounded retention page, while prompt-output-key-retirement-process coordinates one durable PostgreSQL prepare/material-delete/complete operation through an injected material authority. The latter intentionally does not select or dynamically load a KMS: each deployment must bind a reviewed KMS/HSM adapter, and the process returns only content-free identities, digests, status, and database time.

Credential issue/rotation returns the bearer token only for a newly inserted mutation. Exact mutation replay returns token: null; a caller that loses the one-time response must rotate again instead of recovering secret material from storage. Replay equality covers caller-controlled semantics (actor, authentication/request/mutation identity, subject, version, operation and explicit absolute notBeforeAtMs/expiresAtMs), while generated secret/digest and server timestamps are excluded. A collision in any semantic field fails closed.

Production Worker credential rollout must use the explicit @qinglong/cluster-admin/worker-credential-delivery subpath instead of exposing that one-time response. It stages a new credential ID before one atomic credential/mutation/audit/delivery commit, appends publication acknowledgement, and never returns the token. The current slice is intentionally short-lived and timer-free. Authenticated Session observation is appended in the Session transaction; a bounded PostgreSQL-timed recovery page can resume publication, wait for observation, and atomically revoke the previous credential while appending delivery v4. The explicit @qinglong/cluster-admin/worker-credential-file-delivery subpath supplies a bounded POSIX implementation for Docker bind mounts, systemd deployments and controlled single-writer volumes: private no-replace stages, generation-fenced atomic token replacement, durable directory synchronization and bounded stage enumeration. Capability v15 also provides a database-authorized orphan cleanup: the inventory coordinator must append an exact immutable discard tombstone before deleting a stage, while credential commit and discard authorization share one PostgreSQL advisory transaction lock so exactly one can win. Authorization and unfinished cleanup are recovered through separate bounded pages without a resident timer. The explicit @qinglong/cluster-admin/worker-credential-kubernetes-delivery subpath provides the multi-writer deployment adapter without adding another package: immutable per-delivery staging Secrets, target updates fenced by the resourceVersion from the preceding GET, exact replay after 409, and UID + resourceVersion deletion preconditions. It uses the exact-pinned official Kubernetes client through a narrow injected Secret API, owns no watcher/timer/cache, and fails closed when the stage inventory exceeds 128 objects; cleanup pages remain capped at 64. A real k3s 1.34 API-server test with a dedicated ServiceAccount proves the get/list/create/update/delete-only RBAC matrix, concurrent update single winner, and preconditioned delete. Kubernetes HA/control-plane failover, stale-lock repair for the POSIX adapter, PostgreSQL 18/failover evidence, and product-facing administration remain gated.

Plugin Package recovery is exposed only through plugin-package-oci-stage, plugin-package-recovery and plugin-package-recovery-process. The process is the entrypoint for a short-lived recovery Job; it opens one ql3_package_executor Pool, proves the exact executor schema/role readiness, serially converges a bounded recovery cycle, closes PostgreSQL and exits. It is not imported by cluster-control.

The OCI stage authority implements the OCI Distribution API without another workspace package. A PackageLock binds the OCI manifest digest in its locator and independently binds the single bundle layer digest and byte length. The resolver accepts only an explicit registry allowlist, HTTPS, no redirects and no ambient credential provider. It validates the package manifest/config, retrieves exactly one lock-annotated OCI referrer, verifies its Ed25519 publisher signature, and streams the bundle through the common inspector. The deterministic evidence can be re-resolved after process restart; a bounded 64-entry cache only avoids fetching the same evidence twice during one Job.

The production Kustomize operation gives its dedicated ServiceAccount only namespace-scoped ConfigMap get/create/update. It receives neither Secret API access nor runtime/migration database credentials. A dedicated Kind 1.32.8 live gate runs two non-root, read-only-rootfs admin-image Pods with real projected ServiceAccount tokens. It proves one API-confirmed create response loss converges through durable inspect without a second create, and that two processes attempting the same resourceVersion produce one winner and one conflict. ConfigMap list/delete, Secret access and cross-namespace reads are all denied. The response-loss injection is at the client boundary after the API confirms create; it is not raw-wire packet loss or Kubernetes control-plane HA evidence. Private registry authentication and package resource-generation consumers remain gated.

Cluster Package management authentication is exposed only through the plugin-package-identity-assertion and plugin-package-management-transport subpaths. The identity verifier accepts only a dedicated compact JWS purpose with one canonical HTTPS issuer, one exact audience, an explicitly reviewed public-key set and deployment-specific ACR-plus-required-AMR mappings to multi_factor or hardware. It supports Ed25519, P-256 and bounded RSA public keys through Node 24 built-in crypto and adds no dependency. Raw assertions and jti values do not enter management requests or results. The shared verifier/file implementation is now composed by two authority-specific processes: Plugin Package management and Worker credential management. The Worker process is available only through worker-credential-management-process; it opens the dedicated worker-credential-manager PostgreSQL role, validates the v49 role contract, pins keyset generations under authority worker-credential-management, uses database-clock durable quota before management state reads, then exposes only the fixed TLS 1.3 Worker management route. It does not import Worker delivery, TokenRequest or executor authority. Its disabled gate opens no files, listener or database, and the Kubernetes operation remains explicit opt-in.

The three-node K3s management gate runs two required-anti-affinity replicas and the production TLS 1.3 client against each exact Pod. It proves shared durable quota (8 admitted/8 limited), cross-Pod semantic replay, identity generation overlap/revocation/rollback, and database-failure readiness withdrawal followed by fresh-Pod-only recovery. Plan replay equality covers caller-controlled plan semantics; server-authored plan times and their derived digests return the original stored plan, while target or requester drift remains a conflict.

Approved Worker delivery execution is exposed separately through worker-credential-executor-process and ql3-worker-credential-execute. The process accepts one exact non-secret command file, a private canonical 32-byte pepper file, the dedicated executor PostgreSQL role and one in-cluster issuer session. It confirms the exact TokenRequest authorization before and during execution, delegates the 8-allow/20-deny delivery proof to the restricted session, clears issuer client credentials and exits after one result. The Kubernetes operation is a caller-created Job, never a CronJob or resident controller; its base NetworkPolicy remains DNS-only until a private overlay adds the exact API-server and database destinations. A real K3s v1.34.3+k3s1 gate runs this production image and process: the first Job publishes generation 3 with one 600-second TokenRequest, while a second independent Job replays the exact command as existing without another token request. Both use the executor-only one-connection PostgreSQL role, backoffLimit=0, no automounted token and exact API/PostgreSQL egress.