Strategic naming cleanup. Earlier doc-comments + commit messages framed Rank
4 / Rank 5 / Rank 7 work as 'Rank N of the 2026-05-03 Infisical deep-research
deliverable' — the 'Infisical' qualifier was a holdover from the original
deep-research framing where Infisical (a competing secrets-management
platform) was the comparator. Keeping the comparator's name in our source
adds noise without value; an external reader sees 'Infisical' and assumes a
dependency or shared lineage rather than reading it as the competitive
context it was.
Mechanical sed across 34 files (32 source / docs + 2 follow-up Python passes
to collapse 'deep-research deep-research' duplicates that emerged where the
original phrase wrapped across lines):
s|Infisical deep-research|deep-research|g
s|infisical-deep-research-results|deep-research-results-2026-05-03|g
s|infisical-deep-research-prompt|deep-research-prompt-2026-05-03|g
s|infisical-deep-research|deep-research|g
s|Infisical|deep-research|g
s|deep-research deep-research|deep-research|g # collapse-pass
Net diff: 63 insertions / 64 deletions across cmd/, docs/, internal/,
migrations/. Pure text substitution; zero behavior change. Code path
unchanged — go vet clean, tests for TestApproval pass on both
internal/service and internal/api/handler packages.
Workspace docs (cowork/) carry the same references and will be swept
separately — they're not under certctl/ git control. The two filename
references (cowork/infisical-deep-research-results.md +
cowork/infisical-deep-research-prompt.md) get renamed alongside that sweep
to deep-research-results-2026-05-03.md /
deep-research-prompt-2026-05-03.md so cross-references in the certctl
repo doc-comments resolve cleanly.
Mechanical sed across the main go.mod's module declaration, the f5-mock-icontrol
sub-module's go.mod, every Go file's import path (361 files), and a rebuild of
the checked-in f5-mock-icontrol binary so its embedded build-info reflects the
new module path. No behavior change.
Choice B from cowork/transfer-certctl-to-org.md, executed 2026-05-04. Choice A
(keep module path declared as github.com/shankar0123/certctl regardless of
repo URL) shipped on the day of the org transfer (2026-05-03) since we had no
external Go consumers; this commit closes that deferral.
Backward-compat: GitHub HTTP redirects continue to forward
github.com/shankar0123/certctl → github.com/certctl-io/certctl at the URL
level, but Go's module proxy uses the path declared in go.mod as the
canonical name. Pre-fix, anyone trying `go get github.com/certctl-io/certctl/...`
hit a "module path mismatch" error because go.mod said
github.com/shankar0123/certctl and the URL they fetched it from said
certctl-io/certctl. Post-fix, the canonical name and the URL agree, so
go get / go install / external Go consumers / Go-tooling integrations
work cleanly via either the new path (preferred) or the old path (which
redirects and Go follows the redirect for source fetch).
Anyone still importing the old path inside their own code keeps working
provided they update their go.mod's `require` line to match — the module
path declared in their consumer's go.sum / go.mod is the authoritative
import name, so a mass sed across their import statements is the migration
on the consumer side. No external consumers exist today.
Diff shape:
361 *.go files — import path replacement only
2 go.mod — module declaration replacement only
1 binary — deploy/test/f5-mock-icontrol/f5-mock-icontrol rebuilt
so embedded build-info reflects the new path (8618965 vs
8618933 bytes; 32-byte diff is the build-info change)
Total: 364 files, 730 insertions / 730 deletions, net-zero size, pure
mechanical substitution.
Verification:
gofmt: 17 files needed re-alignment after sed (the new path is one char
shorter than the old, so column-aligned import groups drifted). Applied
`gofmt -w` to fix.
go mod tidy: clean exit on both modules.
go vet ./...: clean exit.
go build ./...: clean exit.
go test -short -count=1 on representative packages: all green
(internal/domain, internal/validation, internal/crypto, internal/crypto/signer,
cmd/agent). Test output now reads `ok github.com/certctl-io/certctl/...`
confirming the module path resolves correctly.
binary: f5-mock-icontrol rebuilt; `strings | grep shankar0123` returns
nothing; `strings | grep certctl-io/certctl` shows the new module path
embedded in build-info.
Files intentionally NOT touched in this commit:
README.md / CHANGELOG.md / docs/ / etc. — already swept to certctl-io
URLs in commit 0729ee4 (the post-transfer URL refresh). This commit is
purely the Go-tooling layer.
Scarf pixels (`shankar0123.docker.scarf.sh/...`) — Scarf-account
namespace, not a Go import or GitHub repo URL. Stays.
This is a non-blocking, non-customer-impacting change. Operators pulling
container images, running `make verify`, hitting the API, or installing the
agent see no functional difference. Only Go-tooling consumers (none today)
are affected, and they're enabled — not broken — by this commit.
Closes Rank 4 of the 2026-05-03 Infisical deep-research deliverable
(see cowork/infisical-deep-research-results.md Part 5). Pre-fix,
RenewalService.CheckExpiringCertificates already ran daily,
RenewalPolicy.AlertThresholdsDays drove per-cert thresholds, and
NotificationService.SendThresholdAlert deduped per (cert, threshold)
— but the channel was hardcoded to Email
(internal/service/notification.go:118 pre-fix). Operators who
configured PagerDuty / Slack / Teams / OpsGenie via
CERTCTL_PAGERDUTY_ROUTING_KEY etc. got nothing at any threshold
unless SMTP was also wired. Their first signal of an expired cert
was a 3 AM outage.
This commit lands the routing matrix on top of the existing
infrastructure:
1. RenewalPolicy gains AlertChannels (per-tier channel list) +
AlertSeverityMap (per-threshold tier assignment) +
EffectiveAlertChannels / EffectiveAlertSeverity accessors.
Default*() helpers preserve the back-compat Email-only
behaviour for operators who haven't touched their policies
post-upgrade. Migration 000026 adds the JSONB columns
idempotently.
2. NotificationService.SendThresholdAlertOnChannel — the new
per-channel dispatch helper. Old SendThresholdAlert stays as
an Email-only alias so non-policy callers (admin "send test
alert" surfaces) keep working byte-for-byte.
3. NotificationService.HasThresholdNotificationOnChannel — per-
(cert, threshold, channel) deduplication so a transient
PagerDuty 5xx today does NOT suppress today's Slack alert and
tomorrow's PagerDuty retry will still fire.
4. RenewalService.sendThresholdAlerts walks the resolved channel
set per threshold tier, fans out to every configured channel,
handles per-channel failures independently, defensively drops
off-enum channels with an audit row trail, and records a per-
channel audit event with metadata.channel + metadata.severity_tier.
5. service.ExpiryAlertMetrics — atomic counter table mirrored on
the VaultRenewalMetrics shape from the 2026-05-03 audit fix#5
(commit 0792271). Three labels: channel × threshold × result
(success / failure / deduped). Cardinality bound: 6 × 4 × 3 =
72 series for the standard 4-threshold matrix.
6. handler.MetricsHandler.SetExpiryAlerts wires the Prometheus
exposer for certctl_expiry_alerts_total{channel,threshold,result}.
Pre-sorted snapshot for byte-stable emission.
7. cmd/server/main.go threads ONE service.ExpiryAlertMetrics
instance through both the recording side (notificationService.
SetExpiryAlertMetrics) and the exposing side
(metricsHandler.SetExpiryAlerts).
Dispatch flow (post-fix, per renewal-loop tick):
cert ages past T-30 → daily renewal-loop fires
→ policy lookup
→ for each crossed threshold:
- resolve severity tier (informational/
warning/critical) via AlertSeverityMap
- look up channel set in AlertChannels[tier]
- for each channel: dedup → SendThresholdAlertOnChannel
→ notifierRegistry[channel] → audit row →
Prometheus counter increment
Tests (internal/service/renewal_expiry_alerts_test.go):
TestExpiryAlerts_DefaultMatrix_EmailOnly
TestExpiryAlerts_PerTierFanOut
TestExpiryAlerts_PerChannelDedup
TestExpiryAlerts_OneChannelFails_OthersStillFire
TestExpiryAlerts_OffEnumChannelDropped
TestExpiryAlerts_MetricCounterIncrements
TestExpiryAlerts_NilPolicy_FallsToDefault
TestExpiryAlerts_OperatorOptOutOfTier
The PerTierFanOut test wires 6 mock notifiers, drives a cert at 0
days through the canonical 4 thresholds with the matrix
{informational:[Slack], warning:[Slack,Email],
critical:[PagerDuty,OpsGenie,Email]}, and asserts the exact
recipient counts: Slack=3, Email=3, PagerDuty=1, OpsGenie=1, no
Teams, no Webhook. The OneChannelFails test pins that PagerDuty
returning a 503 does NOT skip Slack/Email at the same threshold.
Drive-by fix (internal/service/testutil_test.go): the existing
mockNotifRepo.List ignored its filter and returned all rows, which
let legacy tests pass on dedup-via-substring even though the
postgres repo actually applied the filter. Updated the mock to
honour CertificateID / Type / Status / Channel / MessageLike
filters in the same shape as the postgres implementation
(internal/repository/postgres/notification.go). All pre-existing
service tests still pass — the legacy test suite happened to be
robust to the mock filter doing nothing.
Documentation:
- docs/connectors.md Notifier section gains "Routing expiry
alerts across channels" — operator-facing, JSON example,
procurement playbook ("How do I make sure PagerDuty pages on
the T-1 alert?"), debug recipe via SQL on audit_events +
notification_events + Prometheus.
- docs/runbook-expiry-alerts.md — sysadmin-grade flowchart,
per-policy channel-matrix configuration recipes, "did the on-
call team get paged?" SQL queries, cardinality budget, V3-Pro
forward path.
- cowork/WORKSPACE-ROADMAP.md gains "Multi-channel expiry
alerts: per-owner routing" V3-Pro entry under Adapter
hardening.
Out of scope (intentional, flagged in V3-Pro forward path):
- Per-owner / per-team / per-tenant channel routing (matrix is
per-policy today, not per-owner).
- Calendar-aware suppression (no T-30 alerts on weekends).
- Escalation chains (T-1 unanswered for 30m → escalate).
- Per-channel rate limiting (downstream of I-005 retry+DLQ).
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/domain/... ./internal/service/...
./internal/api/handler/... ./cmd/server/... clean.
(./internal/repository/postgres/... vet failed on transitive
testcontainers/docker module download — sandbox disk pressure,
not a code issue; postgres-repo build succeeds and tests pass.)
- go test -short -count=1 ./internal/domain/...
./internal/service/... ./internal/api/handler/... green.
- go test -race -count=10 -run 'TestExpiryAlerts'
./internal/service/... green (per-channel dedup race-free).
Reference: cowork/infisical-deep-research-results.md Part 5 Rank 4.
Acquisition prompt: cowork/rank-4-multichannel-expiry-alerts-prompt.md.
Closes the #3 acquisition-readiness blocker from the 2026-05-01 issuer
coverage audit (Part 1.5 finding #1: audit row not transactional with
issuance). AuditRepository.Create previously ran on the package-level
*sql.DB while the certificate insert / version insert / revocation
insert ran on independent connections — a failed audit INSERT after
a successful operation INSERT was silently lost. SOX §404 over IT
general controls, PCI-DSS §10 audit logging, HIPAA §164.312(b) audit
controls, and CA/B Forum Baseline Requirements §5.4.1 audit log
records all presume audit-with-operation atomicity.
Design — Option A (Querier abstraction). The chosen pattern: a shared
repository.Querier interface (subset of *sql.DB and *sql.Tx) plus a
postgres.WithinTx helper that begins a tx, runs fn, commits on nil
error, rolls back on error or panic, and returns the wrapped result.
Repository methods that participate in a service-layer transaction
expose a *WithTx variant taking repository.Querier; the bare methods
remain for stand-alone use. A repository.Transactor abstracts the
"begin tx, run fn, commit/rollback" lifecycle so service-layer code
runs multi-write operations atomically without holding *sql.DB
directly. Option B (UnitOfWork) was considered but adds boilerplate
without behavioral benefit for the current scope. Option C
(context-carried tx) was explicitly rejected — it hides the
transactional boundary from the type system, reproducing the class
of bug we're fixing.
This commit:
- Adds internal/repository/querier.go with the Querier interface
(compile-time guards that *sql.DB and *sql.Tx satisfy it) and the
Transactor interface for service-layer use.
- Adds internal/repository/postgres/tx.go with the WithinTx helper
(begin/fn/commit/rollback with panic recovery) and a transactor
type that satisfies repository.Transactor.
- Adds CreateWithTx variants on AuditRepository, CertificateRepository
(Create + Update + CreateVersion), and RevocationRepository.
Existing bare methods now delegate to the *WithTx variant using
the package-level *sql.DB so existing call sites are
behavior-preserving.
- Updates repository/interfaces.go: AuditRepository, CertificateRepository,
and RevocationRepository declare the new *WithTx methods. Adds an
atomicity contract doc-comment on AuditRepository pointing at
WithinTx + the audit blocker.
- Adds AuditService.RecordEventWithTx, mirroring RecordEvent but
routing through CreateWithTx so the audit row is part of the
caller's transaction. Same redaction + marshalling contract.
- Refactors three audit-emitting service paths to use Transactor.WithinTx
when SetTransactor was wired, with a legacy fallback for backward
compat:
* CertificateService.Create — cert insert + audit row in one tx.
* RevocationSvc.RevokeCertificateWithActor — cert status update +
revocation row + audit row in one tx. The OCSP cache invalidate
remains best-effort (out of scope per the prompt).
* RenewalService CompleteServerRenewal — cert version insert +
cert update + audit row in one tx. Job status update stays
outside the audit-atomicity scope (job state lives outside
the operator-facing audit trail).
- Adds SetTransactor on CertificateService, RevocationSvc, and
RenewalService. cmd/server/main.go wires a single Transactor
instance shared across all three so all audit-emitting paths run
their writes in transactions backed by the same *sql.DB handle.
- Updates 5 mock implementations to satisfy the new interface methods:
mockCertRepo (testutil_test.go), mockCertRepoWithGetError
(shortlived_test.go), fakeRevocationRepo (crl_cache_test.go),
intuneE2EAuditRepo (scep_intune_e2e_test.go), and the integration-
test mocks (lifecycle_test.go: mockCertificateRepository,
mockAuditRepository, mockRevocationRepository). All *WithTx mocks
ignore the Querier and delegate to the bare method (mocks have no
DB; in-memory state is shared regardless of "tx").
- Adds a service-layer test mockTransactor with BeginTxErr and
CommitErr knobs so the atomic-audit tests can assert error
propagation through the transactional boundary.
- Adds internal/repository/postgres/tx_test.go: unit-level test that
WithinTx surfaces "begin tx" wrap when BeginTx fails, and that
Transactor.WithinTx delegates correctly. Real-Postgres rollback
semantics are covered by the testcontainers tests in the postgres
package — sandbox disk pressure prevented adding a sqlmock dep
for the in-fn / commit-failure unit test, so those scenarios are
exercised through atomic_audit_test.go using the mockTransactor's
CommitErr / BeginTxErr fields.
- Adds internal/service/atomic_audit_test.go:
* TestCertificateService_Create_AtomicWithTx — asserts audit
insert failure inside the tx surfaces as the operation's error
(closes the blocker contract).
* TestCertificateService_Create_LegacyPathLogs — pins the
backward-compat behavior when SetTransactor isn't wired:
audit failure is logged-not-failed, matching pre-fix.
* TestCertificateService_Create_TransactorBeginFailure — BeginTx
error path: operation fails, no cert insert, no audit insert.
* TestCertificateService_Create_TransactorCommitFailure —
Commit error after successful in-fn writes surfaces as the
operation's error. Real Postgres can fail Commit on
serialization conflicts; the service must report this.
Out of scope (separate follow-up commits, same shape):
- Issuer CRUD audit atomicity.
- Target CRUD audit atomicity.
- Agent retire (already transactional via RetireAgentWithCascade;
verified, not changed).
- Renewal-policy CRUD audit atomicity.
- Owner/team/agent-group CRUD audit atomicity.
- Discovery / health-check audit atomicity.
Verified locally:
- gofmt -l . clean
- go vet ./... clean
- staticcheck ./... clean
- golangci-lint run --timeout 5m ./... → 0 issues
- go test -short -count=1 ./internal/service/ green
- go test -short -count=1 ./internal/api/handler/ green
- go test -short -count=1 ./internal/integration/ green
- go test -short -count=1 ./internal/repository/postgres/ green
- go build ./... success
Audit reference: cowork/issuer-coverage-audit-2026-05-01/RESULTS.md
Top-10 fix#3 (Part 3, narrative section).
Production hardening II Phase 1.
The OCSP responder previously ignored the request's nonce extension
entirely, leaving relying parties vulnerable to replay attacks. RFC
6960 §4.4.1 defines the OPTIONAL id-pkix-ocsp-nonce extension (OID
1.3.6.1.5.5.7.48.1.2): when present in the request, the responder
MUST echo the same value in the response; when absent, no nonce in
the response (back-compat with relying parties that don't send one).
NEW internal/service/ocsp_nonce.go: ParseOCSPRequestNonce walks raw
DER (golang.org/x/crypto/ocsp.Request doesn't expose the request's
extensions field — the library only exposes IssuerNameHash +
IssuerKeyHash + SerialNumber). Returns one of three states:
- (nil, false, nil) — no nonce extension in request
- (nonce, true, nil) — well-formed nonce, ≤ MaxOCSPNonceLength (32)
- (nil, false, ErrOCSPNonceMalformed) — empty or oversized
NEW internal/service/ocsp_counters.go: sync/atomic counter table for
OCSP request lifecycle (request_get/post, request_success/invalid,
nonce_echoed, nonce_malformed, rate_limited, ...). Mirrors the EST/
SCEP counter pattern; Phase 8 wires these into /metrics/prometheus.
CertSrv types extended:
- internal/connector/issuer/interface.go::OCSPSignRequest gains
Nonce []byte field.
- internal/service/renewal.go::OCSPSignRequest (the service-layer
duplicate used by ca_operations.go) gains the same field.
- internal/service/issuer_adapter.go bridges the two.
Service path: CAOperationsSvc.GetOCSPResponseWithNonce(ctx, issuerID,
serialHex, nonce) is the new entry point that plumbs the nonce
through every signing site (good / revoked / unknown / short-lived).
The legacy GetOCSPResponse becomes a nil-nonce wrapper for back-
compat — every existing caller (tests, the GET handler) sees no
behavior change.
CertificateService gains the same WithNonce variant; the handler
interface adds it to the contract. MockCertificateService in tests
extended with the new method (delegates to the legacy fn when no
override is set, so existing tests that don't care about the nonce
keep working).
Local issuer's SignOCSPResponse appends the id-pkix-ocsp-nonce
extension (non-Critical per RFC 6960 §4.4) to the response template's
ExtraExtensions when req.Nonce != nil. The extnValue is the nonce
bytes wrapped in an OCTET STRING per RFC 6960 §4.4.1.
POST OCSP handler (HandleOCSPPost):
- After ocsp.ParseRequest succeeds, calls ParseOCSPRequestNonce on
the raw body to extract the optional nonce.
- On ErrOCSPNonceMalformed (empty or > 32 bytes): writes an
'unauthorized' OCSP response (status 6 per RFC 6960 §2.3) using
the canonical ocsp.UnauthorizedErrorResponse from x/crypto/ocsp.
Does NOT echo malicious bytes back.
- On well-formed nonce: passes it through GetOCSPResponseWithNonce.
- On no nonce: nil passed through; back-compat preserved.
GET OCSP handler unchanged — the GET form has no body to carry a
nonce extension.
6 new tests in internal/service/ocsp_nonce_test.go pin every
documented failure mode + the 32-byte boundary. The test fixture
builds an OCSPRequest via golang.org/x/crypto/ocsp.CreateRequest then
splices in a [2] EXPLICIT Extensions element by hand (the library
doesn't expose extension construction either).
Pre-commit verification: gofmt clean, go vet clean across affected
packages, go test -short -count=1 green for service/ + handler/ +
connector/issuer/local/. No new env vars introduced (Phase 1 is
always-on per RFC; no operator opt-out).
SCEP RFC 8894 + Intune master bundle Phase 5.6 follow-up.
Closes the 'lying field' gap from the original Phase 5.6 commit (b33b843).
That commit shipped CertificateProfile.MustStaple as a domain field +
IssuanceRequest.MustStaple as the issuer-interface field + the local
issuer's RFC 7633 extension generation + byte-exact tests against the
spec — but the service layer (SCEP + EST + agent + renewal) never read
profile.MustStaple and never set IssuanceRequest.MustStaple. Operators
who set the field got: a stored value, an API that returned it, docs
that promised it worked, and a cert with no extension. Worse than not
having the field at all.
Per the new operating rule landed in cowork/CLAUDE.md::Operating Rules
('Always take the complete path, not the easy path'), this commit closes
the wire end-to-end.
internal/service/renewal.go
* IssuerConnector interface signature gains a mustStaple bool param on
IssueCertificate + RenewCertificate. The original 'this is a wider
refactor' framing was overstated — it's one extra arg threaded
through six call sites, not a structural change.
internal/service/issuer_adapter.go
* IssuerConnectorAdapter.IssueCertificate + RenewCertificate accept
the new param + populate IssuanceRequest.MustStaple /
RenewalRequest.MustStaple. Connectors that don't honor extension
injection (Vault, EJBCA, ACME, etc.) silently ignore the field —
the Phase 5.6 commit's docblock already noted this.
internal/service/scep.go
* processEnrollment now reads profile.MustStaple alongside
profile.MaxTTLSeconds and threads it through the IssueCertificate
call. The SCEP path was the load-bearing one — the original Phase
5.6 docs example showed exactly this code shape but the wire was
never landed.
internal/service/est.go
* Same pattern as SCEP: read profile.MustStaple + thread to
IssueCertificate. Defense in depth so a deploy that mounts the
same profile across SCEP + EST gets consistent extension behavior.
internal/service/agent.go
* The fallback direct-issuer signing path in heartbeatPipeline reads
profile + threads MustStaple through. Server-mode keygen + ad-hoc
CSR submission paths both go through this.
internal/service/renewal.go (the renewal-loop side, not the interface)
* Both renewal call sites (server-CSR-generated + agent-CSR-submitted)
read profile.MustStaple + thread it through RenewCertificate. Renewed
certs match their initial-issuance extension set when the bound
profile changes mid-lifetime.
internal/service/scep_must_staple_test.go (new)
* TestSCEPService_PKCSReq_PlumbsMustStapleToIssuer — end-to-end
integration test: profile.MustStaple=true → SCEP service →
mock IssuerConnector saw mustStaple=true. This is the test the
original Phase 5.6 commit should have shipped — proves the wire
reaches the connector.
* TestSCEPService_PKCSReq_NoMustStaplePropagatesFalse — companion
pinning the symmetric contract; the mock pre-sets LastMustStaple=true
so a stuck-at-true bug surfaces.
internal/service/testutil_test.go +
internal/service/m11c_crypto_enforcement_test.go +
internal/service/issuer_adapter_test.go +
cmd/server/preflight_test.go
* Mock + fake IssuerConnector implementations gain the new mustStaple
bool param. mockIssuerConnector + capturingIssuerConnector also gain
a LastMustStaple / lastMustStaple field used by the new integration
tests to assert the wire reached the connector.
* Existing test call sites for adapter.IssueCertificate /
adapter.RenewCertificate gain a trailing 'false' arg (mechanical bulk
edit, no behavior change).
Verification:
* gofmt + go vet + staticcheck clean for all touched paths.
* go test -short -count=1 green across cmd/agent / cmd/cli /
cmd/mcp-server / cmd/server / api/handler / api/middleware /
api/router / service / scheduler / pkcs7 / connector/issuer/local /
every connector subpackage / domain / crypto / mcp / repository.
* The new TestSCEPService_PKCSReq_PlumbsMustStapleToIssuer test passes,
proving the wire works end-to-end.
The follow-up rule from cowork/CLAUDE.md::Operating Rules — 'can an
operator flip the configurable bit and observe the behavior change
end-to-end with no further code changes?' — is now YES for must-staple
on the SCEP + EST + agent + renewal paths.
Enforce certificate profile crypto constraints across all 5 issuance paths
(renewal, agent CSR, EST, SCEP). ValidateCSRAgainstProfile() rejects CSRs
with key algorithm/size that don't match profile rules. MaxTTL enforcement
caps certificate validity per issuer connector (Local CA, Vault, step-ca
enforce directly; ACME/DigiCert/Sectigo pass through). Key algorithm and
size are now persisted in certificate_versions for audit compliance.
16 new tests (12 service-layer + 4 Local CA connector). Removes hardcoded
version number from GUI sidebar. Documentation updated across architecture,
features, connectors, and README.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rewrote docs/features.md from scratch as authoritative feature inventory
(1255 lines, every claim verified against source files).
Audited README.md and architecture.md against repo — fixed 19 stale
references: K8s Secrets status, issuer counts, dashboard page counts,
CI thresholds, missing connectors in Mermaid diagrams, OpenAPI operation
count, GetCACertPEM behavior, and V2/V4 roadmap accuracy.
Also includes related fixes discovered during audit:
- Scheduler skips expired/failed/revoked certs from auto-renewal
- Seed demo expiry dates moved outside 31-day scheduler query window
- Agent pages use correct last_heartbeat_at field name
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three related ACME ecosystem changes shipped as a single milestone:
1. ACME Certificate Profile Selection: Custom JWS-signed newOrder POST with
`profile` field (e.g., `tlsserver`, `shortlived` for 6-day certs) bypassing
acme.Client.AuthorizeOrder() since golang.org/x/crypto lacks profile support.
ES256 JWS signing with kid mode, nonce management, directory discovery.
Empty profile delegates to standard library path (zero behavior change).
Configurable via CERTCTL_ACME_PROFILE env var. GUI: profile dropdown on
ACME issuer config.
2. ARI RFC 9702 → 9773 Renumber: All 25+ references updated across Go source,
docs, README, and examples. Zero remaining occurrences of RFC 9702.
3. 45-Day / Short-Lived Certificate Positioning: 5 domain tests validating
renewal thresholds against SC-081v3 validity reduction timeline (200→100→47
days) and Let's Encrypt 45-day/6-day profiles. ARI (RFC 9773) is the
expected renewal path for 6-day shortlived certs.
New tests: 13 profile + 5 domain threshold + 1 frontend = 19 new tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace static env-var-based issuer wiring with GUI-driven dynamic
configuration stored encrypted in PostgreSQL. Operators can now
configure, test, enable/disable, and manage issuers from the dashboard
without restarting the server.
Key changes:
- AES-256-GCM encryption for sensitive issuer config at rest (PBKDF2
key derivation with 100k iterations)
- Dynamic IssuerRegistry with sync.RWMutex replacing static map
- Connector factory pattern (issuerfactory.NewFromConfig) replacing
140 lines of static wiring in main.go
- Migration 000009: encrypted_config, last_tested_at, test_status,
source columns on issuers table
- Env var seeding on first boot with ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING
- Registry Rebuild() for atomic map swap after CRUD operations
- Issuer type validation against domain constants on Create
- Audit trail for test connection results
- Conditional seeding for step-ca/OpenSSL (only when env vars set)
- GUI: source badge, connection test status on issuer detail page
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes 12 production bugs preventing the full issuance→deployment flow
from working with ACME (Pebble/Let's Encrypt) and step-ca issuers:
ACME connector (acme.go):
- Save orderURI before WaitOrder overwrites it (Go crypto/acme bug)
- Add CreateOrderCert fallback via WaitOrder+FetchCert
- Remove defer-reset in ValidateConfig that caused nil pointer panic
- Add Insecure TLS option for self-signed ACME servers (Pebble)
step-ca connector (stepca.go, jwe.go):
- Real JWE provisioner key loading + decryption (was using ephemeral keys)
- Fix JWT audience (/1.0/sign), sha claim (key fingerprint), kid header
- Custom root CA trust via RootCertPath config
- Remove hardcoded 90-day validity default (let step-ca decide)
NGINX target connector (nginx.go):
- Use sh -c for validate/reload commands (shell interpretation)
- Use filepath.Dir instead of fragile string slicing
- Add private key file writing (agent-mode keys were never deployed)
- Make chain_path write conditional
Server/service layer:
- TriggerRenewalWithActor now creates actual Job records (was no-op)
- createDeploymentJobs falls back to DB query when cert.TargetIDs empty
- ProcessPendingJobs skips agent-routed deployment jobs
- Agent cert pickup path parsing: len(parts)<4 → len(parts)<3
- Health/ready/auth-info endpoints bypass auth middleware
- Write timeout 15s→120s for ACME issuance
- Cert fingerprint computed on CSR submission
Integration test environment (deploy/test/):
- 10-phase test script covering Local CA, ACME, step-ca, revocation,
discovery, renewal, and API spot checks
- Docker Compose with 7 containers (server, agent, postgres, nginx,
pebble, challtestsrv, step-ca) on isolated network
- TLS verification checks SAN (not just Subject CN) for modern CA compat
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Deployment jobs now set agent_id from target→agent relationship at
creation time. GetPendingWork() uses ListPendingByAgentID() with a
3-way UNION query (direct match, legacy NULL fallback via target JOIN,
AwaitingCSR via cert→target→agent chain) so each agent only receives
its own jobs.
- Added AgentID *string to Job domain struct
- Added agent_id to all job SQL queries (5 SELECTs, INSERT, UPDATE, scanJob)
- New ListPendingByAgentID() repository method
- Rewrote GetPendingWork() from ~25 lines to single scoped query
- 4 new Go tests (3 agent routing + 1 deployment agent_id)
- Frontend: agent_id/target_id on Job type
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CheckExpiringCertificates() now queries each issuer's ARI endpoint
before creating renewal jobs. If the CA says "not yet" (suggested
window hasn't opened), renewal is deferred. ARI errors fall back
gracefully to threshold-based logic. Audit trail records
renewal_trigger=ari when ARI drives the decision.
4 new unit tests: ShouldRenewNow, NotYet, NilFallback, ErrorFallback.
3 new smoke tests in testing-guide.md Part 35.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add certificate export in PEM (JSON or file download) and PKCS#12 formats.
Private keys are never included — they stay on agents. Add EKU-aware
issuance threading profile EKUs (serverAuth, clientAuth, codeSigning,
emailProtection, timeStamping) through the full issuance pipeline. Fix
agent CSR SAN splitting for email addresses, adaptive KeyUsage flags for
S/MIME vs TLS, and a pre-existing generateID collision bug in deployment
job creation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implement Enrollment over Secure Transport protocol with 4 endpoints under
/.well-known/est/ — cacerts (CA chain distribution), simpleenroll (initial
enrollment), simplereenroll (certificate renewal), and csrattrs (CSR
attributes). PKCS#7 certs-only wire format with hand-rolled ASN.1, accepts
both PEM and base64-encoded DER CSRs, configurable issuer and profile
binding, full audit trail. 28 new tests (18 handler + 10 service).
Also includes:
- GetCACertPEM added to issuer connector interface (all 4 issuers updated)
- EST integration tests wired into e2e test suite (13 test cases)
- QA testing guide Part 26 (15 manual EST test cases)
- All docs updated: README, features, architecture, concepts, connectors,
quickstart, demo-advanced (endpoint counts, MCP wording, agent IDs,
issuer interface, resource lists, OpenSSL status)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Backend:
- Embedded OCSP responder: GET /api/v1/ocsp/{issuer_id}/{serial} returns
signed OCSP responses (good/revoked/unknown) using CA key
- DER-encoded X.509 CRL: GET /api/v1/crl/{issuer_id} returns proper DER CRL
signed by issuing CA with 24h validity window
- Short-lived cert exemption: certs with profile TTL < 1 hour skip CRL/OCSP
(expiry is sufficient revocation for ephemeral workloads)
- Extended issuer connector interface with GenerateCRL and SignOCSPResponse
- Local CA implements full CRL/OCSP signing; ACME and step-ca return
appropriate "use native endpoint" errors
- IssuerConnectorAdapter bridges new methods between layers
Frontend:
- Revoke button on certificate detail page with RFC 5280 reason modal
- Revocation banner with reason display and timestamp
- Revocation status indicators in lifecycle section
- "Revoked" filter option in certificates list
- API client: revokeCertificate() function and Certificate type extensions
Tests: ~31 new tests across connector, service, handler, and adapter layers
Docs: milestones renumbered (M13-M14, M16-M18), M15b marked complete
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implements core revocation infrastructure: POST /api/v1/certificates/{id}/revoke
with all 8 RFC 5280 reason codes, JSON-formatted CRL at GET /api/v1/crl, webhook
and email revocation notifications, best-effort issuer notification, and immutable
revocation audit trail. Includes 48 new tests across service, handler, integration,
and domain layers (600+ total). Fixes 3 pre-existing test bugs (team_test error
matching, agent_group delete status code, team handler per_page validation).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
All 10 service files now use slog.Error for failure logging instead of
fmt.Printf. Audit event recording errors are checked and logged rather
than silently discarded. Adds consistent structured context (resource IDs,
operation names) to all error log statements.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixes Go Report Card gofmt score from 52% to 100%.
Pure formatting changes — no logic modifications.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Private keys never leave agent infrastructure. Agents generate ECDSA P-256
key pairs locally, store them with 0600 permissions, and submit only the CSR
(public key) to the control plane. New AwaitingCSR job state pauses
renewal/issuance jobs until the agent submits its CSR. Server-side keygen
retained behind CERTCTL_KEYGEN_MODE=server for demo/development.
Key changes:
- Dual keygen mode via CERTCTL_KEYGEN_MODE (agent default, server for demo)
- AwaitingCSR job state with CommonName/SANs in work response
- Agent ECDSA P-256 keygen, local key storage, CSR-only submission
- CompleteAgentCSRRenewal server-side flow for agent-submitted CSRs
- DeploymentRequest.KeyPEM for agent-provided keys during deployment
- Dockerfile.agent creates /var/lib/certctl/keys with correct ownership
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Wire issuer connector end-to-end with IssuerConnectorAdapter (dependency inversion)
- Renewal/issuance job processor: RSA key + CSR generation, Local CA signing, cert version storage
- Agent work API (GET /agents/{id}/work) and job status API (POST /agents/{id}/jobs/{job_id}/status)
- Agent-side deployment: WorkItem enrichment with target type/config, NGINX/F5/IIS connector invocation
- Full ACME v2 implementation: HTTP-01 challenge solving, account registration, order lifecycle
- Update all docs (README, architecture, connectors, demo-advanced, quickstart) for M1-M2
- Fix go vet warning in deployment.go (non-constant format string)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Runtime fixes:
- Fix env var mismatch (CERTCTL_DB_URL → CERTCTL_DATABASE_URL)
- Fix table name mismatches (certificates → managed_certificates, notifications → notification_events)
- Add renewal_policy_id to certificate queries
- Remove non-existent created_at from notification queries
- Add env var fallback for agent CLI flags
- Graceful degradation for missing notifiers/issuers in demo mode
- Copy web/ directory in Dockerfile for dashboard serving
Service layer:
- Implement handler-service interface pattern across all services
- Wire up certificate, agent, job, policy, team, owner, audit, notification services
Documentation:
- Add concepts.md: beginner-friendly guide to TLS, CAs, private keys
- Rewrite quickstart.md with accurate API examples matching actual handlers
- Add demo-advanced.md: interactive demo with cert issuance and automated script
- Update architecture.md with correct table names and connector interfaces
- Update connectors.md to match actual Go interface signatures
- Update demo-guide.md with cross-references to new docs
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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