Breaking change release. Plaintext HTTP listener removed. The certctl
control plane now terminates TLS 1.3 on :8443 via
http.Server.ListenAndServeTLS. No CERTCTL_TLS_ENABLED=false escape
hatch. No dual-listener mode. One-step cutover per docs/upgrade-to-tls.md.
Server
- cmd/server/tls.go: certHolder with SIGHUP hot-reload + atomic cert
swap, buildServerTLSConfig (TLS 1.3 min, GetCertificate callback),
preflightServerTLS validation
- cmd/server/main.go: ListenAndServeTLS in place of ListenAndServe,
watchSIGHUP wiring, cert/key path config threading
- tls_test.go: 418-line regression coverage of reload, preflight,
callback behavior, SAN validation
Config
- CERTCTL_TLS_CERT_PATH / CERTCTL_TLS_KEY_PATH (required)
- Plaintext rejection: agents/CLI/MCP pre-flight-fail on http://
URLs with a pointer to docs/upgrade-to-tls.md
Agents, CLI, MCP
- All three pre-flight-reject http:// URLs with fail-loud diagnostic
- CERTCTL_SERVER_CA_BUNDLE_PATH for private-CA trust
- CERTCTL_SERVER_TLS_INSECURE_SKIP_VERIFY for dev-only bypass
(loud warning on startup)
- install-agent.sh emits both vars as commented template lines
docker-compose
- certctl-tls-init sidecar generates SAN-valid self-signed cert into
deploy/test/certs/ on first boot
- All demo-stack curls pin against ca.crt with --cacert
Helm chart
- Three TLS provisioning modes, exactly one required:
- server.tls.existingSecret (operator-supplied)
- server.tls.certManager.enabled (cert-manager integration)
- server.tls.selfSigned.enabled (eval only — not for production)
- server-certificate.yaml template for cert-manager mode
- helm install without a TLS source fails at template render with
a pointer to docs/tls.md
CI
- .github/workflows/ci.yml Helm Chart Validation step renders the
chart in both existingSecret and cert-manager modes, plus an
inverse guard-regression test that asserts helm template MUST
refuse to render when no TLS source is configured. Previously
the single `helm template` invocation hit the certctl.tls.required
fail-loud guard and exit-1'd CI. Four invocations now: lint
(existingSecret), template (existingSecret), template
(cert-manager), template (no args — must fail).
Integration tests
- deploy/test/integration_test.go stands up the Compose stack over
HTTPS, extracts the CA bundle, and exercises every certctl API
over https://localhost:8443
- All 34 integration subtests green (per Phase 8 local CI-parity)
Documentation
- New: docs/tls.md (provisioning patterns, rotation, SIGHUP reload)
- New: docs/upgrade-to-tls.md (one-step cutover, no-downgrade
warnings, fleet-roll sequencing)
- CHANGELOG.md: v2.2.0 "HTTPS Everywhere — The Irony" entry
(file heading unchanged; release tag is v2.0.47)
- All curls in docs/, examples/, deploy/helm/ guides use
https://localhost:8443 --cacert
Verification
- grep -rn "ListenAndServe[^T]" cmd/ internal/ → 0 hits
- grep -rn "\"http://" cmd/ internal/ → 2 benign hits (Caddy admin
API default, SSRF doc comment) — zero certctl endpoints
- Tasks #197–#206 (Phases 0–8) all closed in the tracker
Files: 65 changed, 3489 insertions, 372 deletions (pre-CI-fix).
Problem:
a53a4b8 closed C-001 at the handler boundary by tightening the
ValidateRequired contract on POST /api/v1/certificates to require six
fields: name, common_name, renewal_policy_id, issuer_id, owner_id,
team_id. (Correction re-derived from source: the handler
ValidateRequired calls on owner_id/team_id/renewal_policy_id were
actually installed in 3287e17 under M-002/M-003/M-006 auth unification
— a53a4b8's commit message overstates scope.) Post-audit on
2026-04-18 found three parallel call sites still shipping
three-to-four-field payloads that the newly strict handler would
reject with HTTP 400:
- GUI: OnboardingWizard CertificateStep (common_name + sans +
issuer_id + environment only)
- CLI: certctl-cli import (common_name + issuer_id + status only;
no required-flag gating)
- Tests: deploy/test/qa_test.go Part03 positive paths
Scope:
Bring every POST /api/v1/certificates caller to six-field parity. No
handler changes — the contract is authoritative; the callers must
conform.
Implementation:
GUI — OnboardingWizard CertificateStep expansion:
web/src/pages/OnboardingWizard.tsx adds name/owner_id/team_id/
renewal_policy_id state. React Query hooks for getOwners/
getTeams/getPolicies use per_page: '500' to populate dropdowns
without pagination-driven truncation. Payload ships all six
required fields plus sans/certificate_profile_id/environment.
nextDisabled gate enforces all six before the Continue button
activates.
CLI — ImportCertificates rewrite:
internal/cli/client.go rewrites ImportCertificates with
flag.NewFlagSet("import", flag.ContinueOnError). Required flags:
--owner-id, --team-id, --renewal-policy-id, --issuer-id. Optional:
--name-template (default {cn}, templated via strings.ReplaceAll
against cert.Subject.CommonName), --environment (default
imported). Missing required flags fail pre-HTTP with a clear
error. Request map ships all six required fields plus sans/
environment/status/optional serial_number.
cmd/cli/main.go — usage string updated to document the new
required/optional flags.
Tests — qa_test.go Part03 positive paths:
deploy/test/qa_test.go Part03 Create_Minimal and Create_Full
updated to include all six fields. Uses seed_demo.sql-supplied IDs
(o-alice, t-platform, rp-standard) — docker-compose.demo.yml is
the run context. C-001 explanatory comment added above
Create_Minimal so future readers understand why the minimal
payload is no longer minimal.
MCP parity:
Verified no-op. internal/mcp/types.go:28 CreateCertificateInput
already declares all six fields; internal/mcp/tools.go:102
forwards the typed struct unchanged.
Verification:
Go CLI regression tests (internal/cli/client_test.go):
* TestClient_ImportCertificates_MissingRequiredFlags — 5 subtests,
one per missing required flag, confirms flag.ContinueOnError
rejects with non-nil error before any HTTP call is attempted.
* TestClient_ImportCertificates_MissingPositionalArgs — confirms
the "usage: import <file>" error path when no PEM file is
supplied after the flags.
* TestClient_ImportCertificates_SixFieldPayload — uses httptest
to decode the POST body and assert all six required fields
plus sans/environment are present on the wire.
Frontend regression test (web/src/api/client.test.ts):
'createCertificate accepts and transmits all six required fields'
pins the wire shape for both GUI call sites (OnboardingWizard
CertificateStep + CertificatesPage CreateCertificateModal). If
either UI surface accidentally drops a field, this assertion
fails in CI rather than surfacing as a 400 at runtime.
Grep-based call-site sweep:
Enumerated every POST /api/v1/certificates create caller. Four
total: OnboardingWizard, CertificatesPage, MCP tools, CLI import.
All four now ship six-field payloads. Claim path
(internal/service/discovery.go) updates existing rows and does
not POST. EST/SCEP handlers invoke internal
certService.CreateVersion, not the public API. Negative-path
tests (qa_test.go:1085/1267/1274/1288/1298) remain valid: they
assert 400/non-500 on oversized/malformed/missing-CN/UTF-8/empty
bodies, and these properties still hold under the stricter
handler.
Static gates:
go build ./..., go vet ./..., go test ./internal/cli/..., and
cd web && npm run test deferred to operator pre-push — the Go
toolchain is not available in the session sandbox. Grep-based
verification confirms the syntactic shape of every changed file.
Residual:
None. Every POST /api/v1/certificates call site now conforms to the
six-field contract; the wire shape is pinned by both Go and
TypeScript regression tests.
Commit:
TBD-SHA (audit doc + CLAUDE.md carry TBD-SHA placeholders to be
amended after commit)
Closes the remaining P1 gaps from coverage-gap-audit.md (M-001/M-002/M-003/M-006)
on top of the C-001/C-002 ownership + agent-FK contract fixes landed in
a53a4b8. The work lands as a single commit spanning server, docs, tests,
and the React client.
M-002 — Named API keys with per-key actor propagation
* Migration 000014 adds the 'api_keys' table (id, name, hash,
principal, role, created_at, last_used_at, disabled_at) so every
credential carries an identifiable principal instead of the
opaque 'anonymous'/'api-key' sentinel.
* Auth middleware now rotates through configured keys, performs
constant-time hash comparison, stamps 'last_used_at', and emits
an actor struct via contextWithActor(). The audit middleware,
bulk-revocation handler, approval handlers, and MCP tool layer
now read the principal off the context and persist it on every
audit_events row.
* Regression coverage:
- internal/api/middleware/audit_test.go — actor propagation,
principal redaction for disabled keys, anonymous fallback for
unauthenticated endpoints.
- internal/api/handler/bulk_revocation_handler_test.go,
job_handler_test.go — principal-on-audit assertions.
M-003 — Authorization gates (Phase B)
* Approval handler rejects self-approval / self-rejection with 403
when the actor principal equals the job's requested_by field.
* Bulk revocation is gated behind the 'admin' role; operators and
viewers receive 403.
* Regression coverage:
- internal/service/job_test.go — TestApproveJob_NotSelf,
TestRejectJob_NotSelf.
- internal/api/handler/bulk_revocation_handler_test.go —
TestBulkRevoke_RequiresAdmin, TestBulkRevoke_AdminSucceeds.
M-006 — RFC-compliant CRL/OCSP on the unauthenticated .well-known mux
* Per RFC 8615, relying parties cannot reasonably be asked to
authenticate against the issuing certctl instance to retrieve
revocation material. CRL and OCSP move off the authenticated
'/api/v1/crl*' and '/api/v1/ocsp/*' paths onto:
GET /.well-known/pki/crl/{issuer_id}
Content-Type: application/pkix-crl (RFC 5280 §5)
GET /.well-known/pki/ocsp/{issuer_id}/{serial}
Content-Type: application/ocsp-response (RFC 6960)
* Non-standard JSON CRL shape is removed; only DER is served.
* Short-lived certificate exemption (profile TTL < 1h → skip
CRL/OCSP) is preserved; the response simply omits the serial.
* Routes are registered on the unauthenticated 'finalHandler' mux
in cmd/server/main.go alongside EST ('/.well-known/est/*') and
SCEP ('/scep'). Legacy authenticated paths return 404.
* Regression coverage:
- internal/api/handler/certificate_handler_test.go — content
type, DER parseability, 404 for unknown issuer.
- internal/api/handler/adversarial_path_test.go — unauthenticated
access asserted for CRL, OCSP, EST, SCEP.
- internal/api/router/router_test.go — route-table assertion
that '.well-known/pki/*', '.well-known/est/*', and '/scep' are
mounted on the unauthenticated branch.
M-001 — Auto-closed by M-002
EST and SCEP were already registered on the unauthenticated
'finalHandler' mux; the router comment at
internal/api/router/router.go:247 now matches reality. The
adversarial-path tests above lock the behavior in.
Verification (all gates green):
* go vet ./... — clean
* go build ./... — ok
* go test -short ./... (55+ packages) — all pass
* web/ : npm test (225 Vitest tests) — all pass
* web/ : npx tsc --noEmit — clean
* grep sweep for '/api/v1/(crl|ocsp)' — 13 surviving hits,
all intentional M-006 tombstone/relocation comments.
Documentation:
* coverage-gap-audit.md — status flips M-001/M-002/M-003/M-006 →
Fixed, with per-finding resolution paragraphs citing regression
test IDs. (Audit file lives outside this repo; see cowork root.)
* CLAUDE.md Project Status line updated with the auth-unification
closure note.
* docs/features.md, docs/architecture.md, docs/quickstart.md,
docs/concepts.md, docs/connectors.md, docs/test-env.md,
docs/testing-guide.md, docs/compliance-*.md, docs/demo-advanced.md
— refreshed for the new '.well-known/pki/*' namespace and named
API keys.
* api/openapi.yaml — documents the new unauthenticated endpoints
and removes the legacy '/api/v1/crl*' + '/api/v1/ocsp/*' paths.
.gitignore: adds '/.gocache/' and '/.gomodcache/' for the session-
scoped Go caches so they never enter the tree.
1717-line Go test file covering all 52 Parts of testing-guide.md against the
Docker Compose demo stack. ~120 automated subtests (API, DB, source, perf),
11 skipped Parts with reasons, ~270 manual gaps documented. Audited against
actual router, seed data, domain structs, and migrations — 8 factual bugs
caught and fixed during review. Companion guide at docs/qa-test-guide.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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