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vault: add automatic token renewal at TTL/2 + Prometheus metric
Closes Top-10 fix #5 of the 2026-05-03 issuer-coverage audit (see cowork/issuer-coverage-audit-2026-05-03/RESULTS.md). Pre-fix, the VaultPKI adapter authenticated with a static token and never called renew-self. Long-lived deploys hit token expiry; the first operator-visible signal was failed cert renewals on production targets. This commit: 1. Connector.Start(ctx) spawns a goroutine that calls POST /v1/auth/token/renew-self at TTL/2 cadence (computed from a one-shot lookup-self at startup). Honours ctx.Done() for graceful shutdown via a per-loop done channel + Stop(). 2. On `renewable: false` response (initial lookup OR any subsequent renewal), the loop emits a WARN, increments the not_renewable counter, and exits. The operator must rotate the token before Vault's Max TTL elapses. 3. New Prometheus counter certctl_vault_token_renewals_total with labels result={success,failure,not_renewable}. Registered alongside existing certctl_issuance_* counters in internal/api/handler/metrics.go. 4. ERROR-level logging on renewal failure with operator-actionable substring ("vault token renewal failed; rotate the token before TTL expires") so journalctl + grep find it. Loop keeps ticking after a failure — transient blips don't kill it. New optional issuer.Lifecycle interface: type Lifecycle interface { Start(ctx context.Context) error Stop() } Connectors that hold no background goroutines (almost all of them) do not implement this — IssuerRegistry.StartLifecycles / StopLifecycles feature-detect via type assertion. New lifecycle-bearing connectors plug in by implementing the interface; no further registry plumbing required. Wiring (cmd/server/main.go): - service.NewVaultRenewalMetrics() instance is shared between issuerRegistry.SetVaultRenewalMetrics (so Vault connectors built by Rebuild get a recorder) and metricsHandler.SetVaultRenewals (so the Prometheus exposer emits the new series). - issuerRegistry.StartLifecycles(ctx) is called after issuerService.BuildRegistry; defer issuerRegistry.StopLifecycles is paired so goroutines exit cleanly on signal. - IssuerConnectorAdapter.Underlying() exposes the wrapped issuer.Connector so registry-level machinery can reach the concrete connector behind the adapter without duplicating the wiring at every call site. Tests (internal/connector/issuer/vault/vault_renew_test.go): - TestVault_RenewLoop_TickAtHalfTTL — three ticks → three renewals, all "success". - TestVault_RenewLoop_StopsOnNotRenewable — second renewal returns renewable=false, loop exits, third tick fires no HTTP call. - TestVault_RenewLoop_FailureSurfacesViaMetric — first renewal 403 bumps "failure", second renewal succeeds → loop kept ticking. - TestVault_RenewLoop_CtxCancellation_StopsCleanly — Stop returns within 200ms after ctx cancel. - TestVault_RenewLoop_StartsNothingWhenNotRenewable — token already non-renewable at boot ⇒ no goroutine, "not_renewable" metric increments at startup so operators see it in Grafana. - TestVault_ComputeInterval — 4 cases pinning TTL/2 + minRenewInterval floor. - TestVault_RenewSelf_ParseFailure_NamesActionableInError — surfaced error contains "vault token renewal failed" + "rotate the token". Cadence is dynamic — every successful renewal re-derives TTL/2 from the renewed lease's lease_duration, so a short bootstrap token that gets renewed up to a longer Max TTL shifts to the longer cadence automatically (defends against degenerate fast ticking on a token whose Max TTL is far longer than its initial TTL). Documentation: - docs/connectors.md Vault PKI section gains "Token TTL + automatic renewal" subsection (operator-facing: cadence, metric, renewable=false rotation playbook). Out of scope (intentional, flagged in the audit follow-up): - AppRole / Kubernetes / AWS IAM auth methods (different renewal semantics). - Hot-reload of rotated token from disk (operator restarts today; future: GUI/MCP issuer-update path triggers Rebuild which Stops the old connector and Starts the new one). - Auto-re-auth after token death (operator playbook owns it). CHANGELOG.md is intentionally not hand-edited (per CHANGELOG.md itself: "no longer maintains a hand-edited per-version changelog; per-release notes are auto-generated from commit messages between consecutive tags"). Verified locally: - gofmt clean. - go vet ./internal/service/... ./internal/api/handler/... ./internal/connector/issuer/vault/... ./cmd/server/... clean. - go test -short -count=1 ./internal/connector/issuer/vault/... ./internal/service/... ./internal/api/handler/... green. - go test -race -count=10 -run 'TestVault_RenewLoop|TestVault_ComputeInterval' ./internal/connector/issuer/vault/... green. Audit reference: cowork/issuer-coverage-audit-2026-05-03/RESULTS.md Top-10 fix #5.
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**MaxTTL enforcement (M11c):** When a certificate profile defines a maximum TTL, the Vault connector overrides the TTL string in the signing request to ensure the issued certificate does not exceed the profile limit. This is applied before Vault's own role-level max TTL.
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Location: `internal/connector/issuer/vault/vault.go`
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**Token TTL + automatic renewal (Top-10 fix #5, 2026-05-03 audit):** certctl-server periodically calls `POST /v1/auth/token/renew-self` at half the token's TTL to keep the integration alive without manual rotation; the cadence is read from a one-shot `lookup-self` at startup and re-derived on every successful renewal so a short bootstrap token that gets renewed up to a longer Max TTL shifts to the longer cadence automatically. The renewal loop emits the `certctl_vault_token_renewals_total{result="success"|"failure"|"not_renewable"}` Prometheus counter so operators see expiry trouble in Grafana before issuance breaks. When Vault returns `renewable: false` (configured Max TTL reached), the loop logs a WARN, increments `{result="not_renewable"}`, and exits — the operator must rotate the Vault token and restart certctl-server (or use the GUI/MCP issuer-update path to swap the token in place; the registry's Rebuild path re-Starts the lifecycle on the new connector). Per-tick failures (e.g. transient 5xx, brief network blips) bump `{result="failure"}` and the loop keeps ticking; only the explicit `renewable: false` case stops it.
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Location: `internal/connector/issuer/vault/vault.go` + `internal/connector/issuer/vault/vault_renew.go`
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### Built-in: DigiCert CertCentral
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