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shankar0123 1279172e9b loadtest: close Phase 8 SCALE-H2 — add scale-tier scenarios
Phase 8 of the certctl architecture diligence remediation closes
SCALE-H2 by adding three new k6 scenarios that exercise the scale-
relevant load surfaces the API tier + connector tier left uncovered:
fleet-scale bulk renewal, ACME enrollment burst, and agent heartbeat
storm.

Audit miscount + path correction (live-grep at Phase 8 audit time)
==================================================================
- The Phase 8 prompt referenced both `deploy/test/load/` and
  `deploy/test/loadtest/`. Repo truth: the existing harness lives at
  `deploy/test/loadtest/`. New scenarios land there.
- The audit's prior framing "k6 covers the API tier at 50 req/s
  only" omitted Bundle 10 (2026-05-02) which added four connector-
  tier handshake scenarios (nginx/apache/haproxy/f5) at 100 conns/min
  each, plus the Phase 5 ACME directory/nonce/ARI scenario at 100 VUs
  in `k6/acme_flow.js`. Phase 8 appends to what's there rather than
  rewriting.

What ships
==========

Three new k6 scenario files under deploy/test/loadtest/k6/:

  bulk_renewal.js — 10K-cert seed + 5 req/s POST /bulk-renew × 5min
                    p99 < 5s, p95 < 2s, errors < 1%
  acme_burst.js   — 200 VU sustained × directory/nonce/ARI × 5min
                    directory p95 < 500ms, nonce p95 < 300ms,
                    renewal-info p95 < 800ms, 5xx-only < 0.1%
                    Pins RFC 7807 rate-limit response shape via
                    acme_rate_limit_shape_ok Counter.
  agent_storm.js  — 5K-agent seed + 167 req/s POST /heartbeat × 5min
                    p99 < 1s, p95 < 500ms, errors < 0.1%

Two seed SQL fixtures under deploy/test/loadtest/seed/:

  01_bulk_renewal_certs.sql — 10,000 managed_certificates rows
    linked to seed_demo.sql FKs (iss-local, o-alice, t-platform,
    rp-standard). status='active', expires_at distributed across
    next 30 days, name prefix `loadtest-bulk-` so the scenario
    can scope its criteria. Idempotent via
    ON CONFLICT (name) DO NOTHING.

  02_agent_fleet.sql — 5,000 agents rows with name prefix
    `loadtest-agent-`. status='Online', last_heartbeat_at
    staggered across prior 60s, OS distribution 80%/10%/10%
    linux/windows/darwin. Idempotent via
    ON CONFLICT (id) DO NOTHING.

Plus seed/README.md documenting the opt-in profile + when these
run vs the default `make loadtest` fast path.

Compose + Makefile + CI wiring
==============================

deploy/test/loadtest/docker-compose.yml gains four new services,
all gated behind the `scale` compose profile so the default
`make loadtest` is unchanged:

  scale-seed       — one-shot postgres:16-alpine container that runs
                     every ./seed/*.sql in lexical order against the
                     same postgres the server uses. Depends on
                     postgres healthy + certctl-server healthy (so
                     migrations + seed_demo.sql have already run).
  k6-scale-bulk    — grafana/k6:0.54.0 driver running bulk_renewal.js
  k6-scale-acme    — grafana/k6:0.54.0 driver running acme_burst.js
  k6-scale-agent   — grafana/k6:0.54.0 driver running agent_storm.js

Each driver depends_on scale-seed completed_successfully so the
scenarios never run against an unseeded DB (the acme scenario
doesn't need the seed itself but uses the same dependency chain for
ordering predictability).

Makefile gains four new phony targets:

  loadtest-scale-bulk   - runs bulk_renewal.js via compose --profile scale
  loadtest-scale-acme   - runs acme_burst.js
  loadtest-scale-agent  - runs agent_storm.js
  loadtest-scale        - all three serially

.github/workflows/loadtest.yml gains a new k6-scale matrix job that
runs after the existing k6 job (needs: k6) with a matrix on the
three scenarios — fail-fast: false so a regression in one scenario
doesn't cancel the others. Same workflow_dispatch + weekly cron
cadence as the existing API + connector tier job.

Documentation
=============

docs/operator/scale.md gains a new "Scale-tier scenarios (SCALE-H2,
Phase 8)" section between the cursor-pagination subsection and the
profiling-production subsection. Documents:
  - Scenario + seed + sustained load table
  - Threshold contract (regression guards, NOT measured baselines)
  - Measured-baseline table with TBD placeholders + the canonical-
    hardware capture procedure
  - How to run the scale tier locally
  - Four documented limitations (JWS-signed ACME, scheduler renewal
    scan throughput, production-sized Postgres, pull-only deployment
    model)

deploy/test/loadtest/README.md gains a short "Scale tier (Phase 8
SCALE-H2, 2026-05-14)" section pointing at scale.md as the canonical
operator-facing baseline source. Avoids duplication; the README
remains the harness-mechanics doc.

Deliberate deviations from the prompt
======================================

The Phase 8 prompt's "concrete deliverables" section referenced
`deploy/test/load/` (no -test) for the new k6 files. The actual
harness lives at `deploy/test/loadtest/` — the new files land there
to match existing convention. The prompt's audit-questions section
also referenced `deploy/test/loadtest/` so the prompt was internally
inconsistent on this; repo truth wins.

The prompt described the ACME burst as "200 concurrent ACME orders
against /acme/profile/<id>/new-order ... pin the rate-limit response
shape." new-order is JWS-signed (RFC 8555 §7.4 requires JWS for
every POST except newAccount-pre-account-key flows). k6 doesn't
ship JWS and bundling a signer (e.g. lego) into the k6 container
would obscure the server-side latency the scenario is trying to
measure. Same trade-off the existing Phase 5 acme_flow.js made.
Phase 8's acme_burst.js measures the unauthenticated
directory + nonce + ARI surface at burst rate AND pins the 429
rate-limit response shape via a custom Counter that increments only
when the response is `application/problem+json` with the
`urn:ietf:params:acme:error:rateLimited` type. End-to-end JWS
conformance under load remains a follow-up; the canonical JWS
correctness gate is `make acme-rfc-conformance-test` (lego-based,
non-load).

Deferred (operator-side, not engineering)
==========================================

Canonical-hardware baseline capture. The TBD placeholders in
docs/operator/scale.md's measured-baseline table are intentional —
sandbox-captured numbers from a developer laptop are misleading
(same anti-pattern the original loadtest README guards against).
Operator triggers loadtest.yml from the Actions tab, waits for the
k6-scale matrix jobs to complete, downloads the per-scenario
summary artifacts, copies p50/p95/p99 into the table, commits the
captured numbers alongside the date + commit SHA.

Files changed (10):
  .github/workflows/loadtest.yml                            (+72 -1)
  Makefile                                                  (+47 -1)
  deploy/test/loadtest/README.md                            (+28 -1)
  deploy/test/loadtest/docker-compose.yml                   (+108 -1)
  deploy/test/loadtest/k6/bulk_renewal.js                   (new, 106 lines)
  deploy/test/loadtest/k6/acme_burst.js                     (new, 192 lines)
  deploy/test/loadtest/k6/agent_storm.js                    (new, 124 lines)
  deploy/test/loadtest/seed/01_bulk_renewal_certs.sql       (new, 95 lines)
  deploy/test/loadtest/seed/02_agent_fleet.sql              (new, 92 lines)
  deploy/test/loadtest/seed/README.md                       (new, 86 lines)
  docs/operator/scale.md                                    (+109 -0)

Verification (sandbox-runnable):
  python3 -c 'import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open("deploy/test/loadtest/docker-compose.yml"))'
    → compose YAML OK
  python3 -c 'import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open(".github/workflows/loadtest.yml"))'
    → workflow YAML OK
  grep -E 'bulk_renewal|acme_burst|agent_storm' deploy/test/loadtest/k6/*.js
    → all three scenarios + tags present
  grep loadtest-scale Makefile
    → 4 new targets registered in .PHONY + 3 recipes + 1 aggregate

Runtime verification (deferred — requires docker on canonical hardware):
  make loadtest-scale-bulk    # 10K cert fixture + 5 req/s × 5min
  make loadtest-scale-acme    # 200 VU × 5min
  make loadtest-scale-agent   # 5K agent fixture + 167 req/s × 5min
  make loadtest-scale         # all three serially

Closes: cowork/certctl-architecture-diligence-audit.html#fix-SCALE-H2
2026-05-14 03:25:15 +00:00
shankar0123 bee47f0318 acme-server: cert-manager integration test + production hardening (Phase 5/7)
Closes the production-readiness loop on the ACME surface. After this
commit, certctl ships per-account rate limits + a GC sweeper for
expired ACME state + a kind-driven cert-manager 1.15 integration test
+ a lego-driven RFC conformance harness + a k6 loadtest scenario for
the unauthenticated ACME path.

Architecture:
  - Rate limits live in-memory + per-replica. Restart wipes the
    counters; orders/hour caps are eventual-consistency anyway. A
    3-replica certctl-server fleet behind an LB effectively has 3x
    the configured throughput per account; persistent rate limiting
    is a follow-up if production telemetry shows abuse patterns we
    can't catch in a single restart cycle. Per-key + per-action
    isolation: ActionNewOrder/acc-1, ActionKeyChange/acc-1, and
    ActionChallengeRespond/<challenge-id> are independent buckets.
  - GC loop follows the existing scheduler-loop pattern (atomic.Bool
    + sync.WaitGroup; see crlGenerationLoop for shape). Three
    independent SQL sweeps per tick (DELETE expired nonces; UPDATE
    pending authzs whose expires_at < now() to expired; UPDATE
    pending/ready/processing orders whose expires_at < now() to
    invalid). Each sweep is a single statement; failures are logged-
    and-continued so a failing nonces sweep doesn't block authzs.
    Per-sweep 1m timeout bounds a stuck Postgres.
  - cert-manager integration test is gated on KIND_AVAILABLE so CI
    skips it cleanly (kind is too heavy for per-PR). Operators run
    locally via 'make acme-cert-manager-test'; the harness brings up
    a fresh cluster each run + tears it down on Cleanup.
  - lego conformance harness drives a real ACME client through
    register → run → cert-PEM-landed against a hermetic certctl
    stack. Catches RFC-shape regressions third-party clients would
    hit before they ship.
  - k6 ACME-flow scenario hammers the unauthenticated surface
    (directory + new-nonce + ARI synthetic-id) at 100 VUs × 5m. JWS-
    signed flows are out of scope for k6 (no JWS support); they're
    covered by the lego harness above.

What ships:
  - internal/api/acme/ratelimit.go (+ ratelimit_test.go: 7 cases —
    disable-when-perHour-zero, capacity, per-key isolation, per-
    action isolation, refill-over-time, RetryAfter, concurrent-access
    with -race + 200 goroutines × 200 calls).
  - internal/repository/postgres/acme.go: 4 new methods —
    CountActiveOrdersByAccount + GCExpiredNonces + GCExpireAuthorizations
    + GCInvalidateExpiredOrders. Each a single SQL statement.
  - internal/service/acme.go: SetRateLimiter + GarbageCollect +
    rate-limit gates at 3 entry points (CreateOrder + RotateAccountKey
    + RespondToChallenge) + concurrent-orders gate at CreateOrder.
    2 new sentinels (ErrACMERateLimited, ErrACMEConcurrentOrdersExceeded);
    5 new GC metrics (gc_runs / gc_run_failures / gc_nonces_reaped /
    gc_authzs_expired / gc_orders_invalidated).
  - internal/scheduler/scheduler.go: ACMEGarbageCollector interface +
    acmeGCRunning atomic.Bool + acmeGCInterval + 2 setters (SetACME-
    GarbageCollector + SetACMEGCInterval) + acmeGCLoop following the
    crlGenerationLoop shape.
  - internal/api/handler/acme.go: writeServiceError gains rateLimited
    (429 + RFC 8555 §6.7) + concurrent-orders-exceeded mappings.
  - internal/config/config.go: 5 new env vars
    (CERTCTL_ACME_SERVER_RATE_LIMIT_ORDERS_PER_HOUR=100,
    CERTCTL_ACME_SERVER_RATE_LIMIT_CONCURRENT_ORDERS=5,
    CERTCTL_ACME_SERVER_RATE_LIMIT_KEY_CHANGE_PER_HOUR=5,
    CERTCTL_ACME_SERVER_RATE_LIMIT_CHALLENGE_RESPONDS_PER_HOUR=60,
    CERTCTL_ACME_SERVER_GC_INTERVAL=1m).
  - cmd/server/main.go: NewRateLimiter() + SetRateLimiter() at
    startup; conditional SetACMEGarbageCollector(acmeService) +
    SetACMEGCInterval(cfg.ACMEServer.GCInterval) when Enabled+
    GCInterval > 0.
  - deploy/test/acme-integration/: kind-config.yaml + cert-manager-
    install.sh + clusterissuer-trust-authenticated.yaml +
    clusterissuer-challenge.yaml + certificate-test.yaml + conformance-
    lego.sh + certmanager_test.go (//go:build integration + KIND_AVAILABLE
    gate).
  - deploy/test/loadtest/k6/acme_flow.js + README ACME-flows section.
  - Makefile: 2 new PHONY targets (acme-cert-manager-test +
    acme-rfc-conformance-test).
  - docs/acme-server.md: status flipped to Phase 5; Configuration
    table grows 5 rows; new 'Phase 5 — operational guidance' section
    explaining rate-limit math + GC sweeper semantics + cert-manager
    integration + lego conformance + k6 baseline.

Tests:
  - 'go vet ./...' clean across the repo.
  - 'go test -short -count=1 ./internal/...' green across every
    affected package (service / acme / handler / scheduler / repo /
    config).
  - 'go vet -tags=integration ./deploy/test/acme-integration/' clean
    (the integration test compiles cleanly with the build tag).
  - The kind/cert-manager harness is gated behind KIND_AVAILABLE so
    CI skips by default; operators run locally via 'make acme-cert-
    manager-test'.

Engineering history: cowork/WORKSPACE-CHANGELOG.md 'ACME-Server-5'.
2026-05-03 19:42:03 +00:00