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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D8fQfDyzNCAPAxPntwO7OOfRaq_r92QJsc3oSOKyZXo/edit?tab=t.0

Summary

Adds automatic certificate rotation for site identities under spiffe peer trust. A site rotates its certificate for a new key before it expires, with no new invite. The grid CA does not rotate. Today a certificate lasts 30 days and is replaced by hand.

What changed

  • A site rotates over mutual TLS with its current certificate. Certificates last 180 days and rotate when a third of the lifetime remains. Existing certificates move to 180 days at their first rotation.
  • The hub rotates the same way, from a record the bootstrap signs with the grid CA key.
  • The enrollment service keeps each site's current and previous key and freezes a site when two parties hold its key. A grid admin can read an enrollment, or delete it to release the name for a new invite.
  • After a rotation the operator restarts the gateway, because the gateway reads its client certificate only at start. This needs patch on the gateway Deployment, granted only while rotation is on.
  • Sites using pin peer trust do not rotate, because peers pin the certificate. They re-enroll before the certificate expires (feat: rotate a site identity under pin trust #274 tracks rotation under pin).
  • Rotation can be turned off for the grid on grid-enrollment, or for one site on grid-operator, with enrollment.rotation.enabled=false. Current certificates stay valid until they expire.
  • The bootstrap refuses to create a new grid CA when one is already in use, so a lost CA key cannot silently split the grid.
  • Enrollment errors are a fixed list of codes in the API spec, and every 503 carries Retry-After. The rotation endpoint is /v1alpha1/rotations.
  • The operator starts in the grid modes its chart values declare (grid.signals, grid.peerTrust) before its GridNetwork exists, so a poll install no longer restarts once when the network appears.

Testing

  • Unit and Postgres tests, plus a property test that runs 20,000 random sequences of enroll, rotate, lost responses, cloned keys, restores, and deletes.
  • The hub-site e2e gains a rotation leg with 8 minute certificates: hub and site each rotate twice, gateway traffic from hub to site and peer polls in both directions succeed across every rotation, a cloned key freezes the site, and delete plus a new invite re-enrolls it. The pin leg asserts that rotation stays off.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Site identity certificates now last 180 days and can rotate automatically when about one-third of their lifetime remains. Rotation is enabled by default, requires SPIFFE peer trust and a compatible passthrough route, and can be disabled. Successful rotations may roll gateway deployments.
    • Enrollment administrators can view and delete eligible enrollment records, freeing site names for re-enrollment. Reserved site names can be provisioned using signed seeds.
    • Grid status reports identity fingerprints, expiry and rotation timing, and recovery details when an identity needs attention.
    • Startup signal transport and peer-trust modes can be configured before a GridNetwork exists.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Safeguards prevent conflicting identities or CA changes that could disrupt enrolled sites.
  • Documentation
    • Updated guidance covers renewal, peer-trust modes, recovery, and configuration.

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The pull request adds site certificate rotation and enrollment administration. The enrollment service handles renewal requests and reserved-site seeds. The operator schedules renewal, updates identity status, and can roll gateway Deployments. Charts, API schemas, tests, and documentation are also updated.

Changes

Identity Rotation and Enrollment

Layer / File(s) Summary
API contracts and certificate helpers
api/enrollment-v1alpha1.yaml, enrollment/src/generated.rs, certs/src/*
The API defines rotation and enrollment lookup and deletion operations, with typed status and error schemas. Certificate helpers add key matching, CA signing and verification, validity extraction, and certificate fingerprinting. The default site certificate lifetime changes to 180 days.
Renewal decisions and enrollment storage
enrollment/db/schema/*, enrollment/src/store/*, enrollment/tests/postgres.rs
Memory and Postgres stores track renewal and reservation state, key history, certificate expiry, and frozen records. Shared decision logic handles rotation, retries, forks, and seed generations.
Reserved-site seeds and bootstrap
enrollment/src/ca.rs, enrollment/src/seed.rs, enrollment/src/bootstrap.rs
Bootstrap evaluates distributed CA and identity state, reconciles hub identities, and writes signed reserved-site seeds. The service verifies and applies configured seeds.
Enrollment API and mutual TLS
enrollment/src/api.rs, enrollment/src/tls.rs, enrollment/src/main.rs, enrollment/tests/renewal*.rs
The service accepts renewal requests with verified client certificates, supports enrollment lookup and deletion, and applies renewal settings and retry headers. Startup configures TLS and periodically reapplies configured seeds.
Operator renewal and gateway rollout
operator/src/enroll/*, operator/src/main.rs, operator/src/metrics.rs
The operator schedules renewal, reuses pending credentials after failed requests, validates returned identities, updates Secrets, and can roll a gateway Deployment. Renewal metrics and retry scheduling are added.
Grid modes and identity status
operator/src/cli.rs, operator/src/controller/grid_network.rs, operator/src/crd/grid_network.rs, deploy/crds/gridnetwork.yaml
The operator accepts initial grid modes, recognizes current and replaced identity certificates, and reports certificate expiry, rotation time, fingerprint, and recovery information in GridNetwork status.
Enrollment chart settings and permissions
charts/grid-enrollment/*, scripts/verify-helm-chart.sh
The chart configures rotation, reserved seeds, and enrollment-admin subjects. It grants the associated permissions and rejects reencrypt Routes when rotation is enabled.
Operator chart wiring
charts/grid-operator/*
The chart passes rotation and startup-mode settings, grants conditional gateway Deployment access, and adds identity status to its GridNetwork schema.
Operational guidance and end-to-end checks
docs/*, charts/*/README.md, examples/helm/hub-site/README.md, scripts/e2e-hub-site.sh, .github/workflows/helm.yaml
Documentation covers rotation behavior, trust modes, and recovery. The end-to-end script tests rotation, gateway rollout, replaced-leaf refusal, and site re-enrollment; pin-mode checks confirm that rotation remains disabled.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SiteOperator
  participant EnrollmentService
  participant EnrollmentStore
  participant CertificateAuthority
  SiteOperator->>EnrollmentService: Present current identity and CSR
  EnrollmentService->>EnrollmentStore: Check enrollment and renewal state
  EnrollmentStore->>CertificateAuthority: Sign replacement certificate
  CertificateAuthority-->>EnrollmentStore: Return issued certificate
  EnrollmentStore-->>EnrollmentService: Return renewal result
  EnrollmentService-->>SiteOperator: Return certificate and grid CA
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bef50

The current instructions can leave a site without automatic certificate renewal or a usable re-enrollment invite. Correct those procedures before merging; the remaining schema and template concerns should also be addressed.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to bef50

Renewal has strong identity and authorization checks. However, compromised certificates remain usable until expiry, and a trust-mode change can interrupt gateway recovery after credentials have already changed. These are material identity-lifecycle and failure-containment risks.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Deleting or freezing an enrollment stops subsequent issuance but does not revoke certificates already issued for that identity. With the new 180-day default, a stolen certificate and key can remain usable substantially longer at endpoints that continue trusting that site. This is an introduced containment tradeoff, not an unauthenticated issuance bypass.
  • Medium · reliability · inferred: A successful Secret rotation followed by a failed gateway patch leaves a rollout owed. Later SPIFFE checks retry it, but changing declared trust to pin returns Off and excludes gateway rollover entirely. The gateway can therefore remain on the replaced identity until manual intervention or another qualifying check. Pin trust deliberately prevents new rotations; the concern is that this same gate also abandons completion of an already committed transition.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A stolen site certificate and private key attack that site's identity rather than allowing arbitrary CSR-selected identities. Administrative deletion and token minting together can release and reassign non-reserved names within the enrollment authority's grid. Local token authorization deliberately grants every valid administrative token all such operations; Kubernetes authorization separates them.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A holder of compromised identity credentials can authenticate renewal while its record permits issuance. Freezing or deleting that record contains further issuance, but already-issued credentials retain their certificate validity at peers that continue trusting the identity. The 180-day default increases this residual exposure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — PeerLeaf originates from the accepted TLS connection in both backends. The rotation extractor then checks CA trust, certificate validity, and site identity before exposing the presented key to the renewal transaction. An HTTP header does not supply this identity.
  • observed — The operator chart conditionally adds get and patch permission for the configured gateway Deployment name. The enrollment chart gives deletion its own administrative role, unbound unless subjects are configured. Deployment patch authority is broader than the annotation-only operation used by the renewal code; its effective namespace scope was not resolved.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Resource-version checks prevent concurrent credential writes from silently overwriting newer Secret state. Database locking serializes renewals of a name and commits a detected fork freeze before refusal. These controls preserve state ownership, but do not make Secret replacement and gateway activation one atomic transition.
  • observed — The service still supports an in-memory store when no database URL is configured and explicitly warns that records are lost on restart and are not shared between replicas. Renewal authority therefore depends on durable shared enrollment state in deployments that require continuity.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Separate permission to initiate another rotation from recovery of an already committed rotation. Define an explicit completion or rollback policy when trust changes to pin, rather than silently abandoning gateway reconciliation or blindly rolling a pinned identity.
  • proposed — Define a compromise-containment objective for issued identities and align certificate lifetime and peer exclusion controls with it. Enrollment deletion should not be treated as immediate certificate revocation.
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🟡 Minor · Update the site name already enrolled troubleshooting entry to match the new… · enrollment.md:202

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Update the site name already enrolled troubleshooting entry to match the new Recovery section.

The Recovery bullet on Line 93 now says an enrollment admin can delete the site's enrollment, and the site then re-enrolls under the same name. Line 202 still tells the operator to "Enroll under a new site name, as the known limit in Recovery describes." That known limit no longer exists in Recovery.

Point the entry at the delete-and-reinvite procedure. Keep "a new site name" only as a fallback for users who have no enrollment-admin access.

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-- **Operator logs `site name already enrolled`**: an earlier attempt spent a token for this name. Enroll under a new site name, as the known limit in Recovery describes.
+- **Operator logs `site name already enrolled`**: an earlier attempt spent a token for this name. An enrollment admin deletes the site's enrollment and invites it again, as Recovery describes. Without that access, enroll under a new site name.
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Update the “site name already enrolled” troubleshooting entry to direct users to
the delete-and-reinvite procedure described in Recovery. Keep enrolling under a
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Review comments at @api/enrollment-v1alpha1.yaml:
- Around line 461-477: Update the `Error` schema in `enrollment-v1alpha1.yaml`
to keep `error` as a string and describe the known codes in its description or
examples, rather than constraining it with a closed enum. Preserve clients’
ability to decode unknown future error codes.

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- Line 90: Update the hub-namespace permissions description near the hub
bootstrap instructions to list every verb granted by the Role in
ca-bootstrap-rbac.yaml, including delete on hubSite.identitySecretName and get
on hubSite.swimKeySecretName; retain the existing permissions accurately.

Review comments at @charts/grid-operator/templates/_helpers.tpl:
- Around line 139-143: Ensure the grid.id/site-name validation in
grid-operator.validateGrid runs for every grid template, including gridsite.yaml
and inferenceprovider.yaml, by including the helper in those templates; preserve
the existing fail condition and message.

Review comments at @charts/grid-operator/templates/gridsite.yaml:
- Around line 1-6: Add the grid-operator.validateGrid include to the
gridsite.yaml template after grid-operator.normalize and before the grid.id
conditional, so missing site names fail with the established validation message
during partial renders.

Review comments at @charts/praxis-gateway/tests/config_checksum_test.yaml:
- Around line 41-55: Update the first checksum test for the 10.96.0.20 backend
to assert that checksum/config equals the hash used by “a changed backend
endpoint changes the checksum.” Keep the format assertion and the second test’s
notEqual assertion so the tests verify both the baseline hash and its change.

Review comments at @enrollment/Cargo.toml:
- Around line 72-73: Update the reqwest and rustls dev-dependency configuration
in Cargo.toml so the TLS test dependencies are included only in non-FIPS test
builds, keeping ring out of the FIPS test dependency graph. Update the FIPS CI
dependency assertion to inspect dev-dependencies and verify that ring is absent.

Review comments at @enrollment/src/bootstrap.rs:
- Around line 430-432: Update the early return in ensure_seed to require both a
matching site_name and a key_sha256 matching the public key of leaf_pem. Reuse
the computed key hash when building the SeedRecord so a mismatched held seed
proceeds through re-signing with a higher generation.

Review comments at @enrollment/tests/renewal.rs:
- Line 3: Replace the `#![allow(clippy::tests_outside_test_module, ...)]`
suppression in `renewal.rs` with a reasoned `#[expect(...)]` in the existing
expectation block. Make the same change in `renewal_tls.rs`, ensuring the
expectation is not unfulfilled when built with `--features fips` and the
crate-level FIPS cfg excludes its tests.

Review comments at @operator/src/controller/grid_network.rs:
- Around line 888-896: Update the identity failure handling in `identity_status`
and the phase decision using `site_identity_status`: when identity material
cannot be read or validated and `siteSecretRef` is configured, preserve the
prior identity or report an explicit unreadable status, and ensure the phase is
not healthy. Also prevent the expiry gauge from retaining a stale last-good
value after a failed read.

Review comments at @operator/src/main.rs:
- Around line 138-148: Update GridModes::restart_for in
operator/src/controller/grid_network.rs to restart when declared.renews()
differs from self.renews(), and update a_trust_change_restarts_only_under_poll
to cover this behavior; this keeps renewal aligned with declared trust changes.
In docs/architecture/signals.md, revise lines 31–34 to remove the claim that
only the poll path reads peer trust and state that trust changes switching
renewal on or off also restart the operator. The operator/src/main.rs lines
138–148 anchor requires no direct change; it shows where renewal is started
based on the startup mode.

Review comments at @scripts/verify-helm-chart.sh:
- Line 140: Replace the PID-based `/tmp` render paths in the Helm template
commands with files created securely using `mktemp`; place CI render files in
the workspace so the artifact upload can access them after the script exits.
Update the gateway image check to read the new gateway render file and align the
workflow artifact path with the workspace render files.

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the setting. Preserve the distinction that without a `GridNetwork`,
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🟠 Major · Retry a gateway rollout when its identity annotation is absent. · renew.rs:175-176

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Retry a gateway rollout when its identity annotation is absent.

If the first Deployment patch fails after renewal, the next identity check returns Waiting. roll_patch then declines the retry when current is None. The gateway can keep its previous cached identity until another restart. Treat a missing annotation as needing a patch, including on a waiting check, and test a failed first rollout followed by a retry.

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Update the `roll_patch` identity check so a missing `current` annotation
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🟡 Minor · Describe the install trust mode before a GridNetwork exists. · enrollment.md:128-129

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Describe the install trust mode before a GridNetwork exists.

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🟡 Minor · Document the gateway Deployment rollout. · enrollment.md:123-124

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Document the gateway Deployment rollout.

The operator patches the gateway Deployment after renewal. The gateway does not reload its cached identity without a restart. Distinguish the signals components’ reload behavior from the gateway rollout so operators do not omit the Deployment patch permission.

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Update the certificate renewal documentation near the signals listener, peer
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the three outside diff findings are fixed
roll retry after a failed patch in 9087d61
pre gridnetwork trust text in d81fee7
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- Around line 124-132: Update the “Site name held” recovery procedure to delete
the existing grid-invite-<siteName> Secret on the hub, run helm upgrade
with the site still in invites to mint a replacement token, and copy that token
to the site before re-enrolling. Preserve the existing enrollment deletion
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- Around line 144-147: Update the enrollment instructions to require both
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Comment on lines +124 to +132
- **Expired or revoked token** (`site token rejected`): delete
`grid-invite-<siteName>` on the hub, run `helm upgrade` with the site still in
`invites`, and copy the new token to the site.
- **Site name held** (`site name already enrolled`): a redeemed token holds its
name. An enrollment admin runs `DELETE /v1alpha1/enrollments/<siteName>`, then
you invite the site again. That needs `delete` on `enrollments` in group
`grid.praxis.fast`, which the `enrollment-admin` Role grants to
`enrollment.enrollmentAdmins.subjects` and to no one by default. Without that
access, enroll under a new site name.

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Delete the old invite Secret in the held-name recovery path.

When a redeemed invite still has grid-invite-<siteName>, the invite Job skips it and mints no replacement. The redeemed token cannot be used again, so this procedure leaves the site without a usable token to re-enroll. The expired/revoked-token step removes the Secret, but the held-name step must do so too.

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   name. An enrollment admin runs `DELETE /v1alpha1/enrollments/<siteName>`, then
-  you invite the site again. That needs `delete` on `enrollments` in group
+  delete `grid-invite-<siteName>` on the hub and run `helm upgrade` with the
+  site still in `invites` to mint a new token. Copy the new token to the site.
+  Deleting the enrollment needs `delete` on `enrollments` in group
   `grid.praxis.fast`, which the `enrollment-admin` Role grants to
   `enrollment.enrollmentAdmins.subjects` and to no one by default. Without that
   access, enroll under a new site name.
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- **Expired or revoked token** (`site token rejected`): delete
`grid-invite-<siteName>` on the hub, run `helm upgrade` with the site still in
`invites`, and copy the new token to the site.
- **Site name held** (`site name already enrolled`): a redeemed token holds its
name. An enrollment admin runs `DELETE /v1alpha1/enrollments/<siteName>`, then
you invite the site again. That needs `delete` on `enrollments` in group
`grid.praxis.fast`, which the `enrollment-admin` Role grants to
`enrollment.enrollmentAdmins.subjects` and to no one by default. Without that
access, enroll under a new site name.
- **Expired or revoked token** (`site token rejected`): delete
`grid-invite-<siteName>` on the hub, run `helm upgrade` with the site still in
`invites`, and copy the new token to the site.
- **Site name held** (`site name already enrolled`): a redeemed token holds its
name. An enrollment admin runs `DELETE /v1alpha1/enrollments/<siteName>`, then
delete `grid-invite-<siteName>` on the hub and run `helm upgrade` with the
site still in `invites` to mint a new token. Copy the new token to the site.
Deleting the enrollment needs `delete` on `enrollments` in group
`grid.praxis.fast`, which the `enrollment-admin` Role grants to
`enrollment.enrollmentAdmins.subjects` and to no one by default. Without that
access, enroll under a new site name.
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Update the “Site name held” recovery procedure to delete the existing
grid-invite-&lt;siteName&gt; Secret on the hub, run helm upgrade with the site
still in invites to mint a replacement token, and copy that token to the site
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/// This site's identity certificate: when it expires and when rotation is due.
#[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
pub identity: Option<SiteIdentityStatus>,
}

/// This site's identity certificate.
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, Deserialize, Eq, JsonSchema, PartialEq, Serialize)]
#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
pub struct SiteIdentityStatus {
/// When the certificate expires, RFC 3339.
pub not_after: String,
/// When rotation is due, a third of the lifetime before `notAfter`, RFC 3339. Empty
/// under pin peer trust, or when this site's operator does not rotate.
pub rotate_after: String,
/// SHA-256 of the certificate DER, the digest peers pin.
pub fingerprint: String,
/// `IdentityExpired` once the certificate has expired, `IdentityUnreadable` when the
/// Secret holds no usable certificate.
#[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "String::is_empty")]
#[schemars(regex(pattern = "^(IdentityExpired|IdentityUnreadable)$"))]
pub reason: String,
/// How to recover.
#[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "String::is_empty")]
pub message: String,
}

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rg -n -C 4 'IDENTITY_EXPIRED|IDENTITY_UNREADABLE|reason\.is_empty\(\)|reason: if expired|reason: IDENTITY_' operator/src/controller/grid_network.rs
printf '%s\n' '--- status schema and field ---'
sed -n '1060,1082p' operator/src/crd/grid_network.rs | nl -ba -v1060
sed -n '740,760p' deploy/crds/gridnetwork.yaml | nl -ba -v740

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Represent identity failure reasons with an enum.

SiteIdentityStatus.reason has two valid values. The type-design rule in docs/developing/type-design.md says never use String for a fixed value set. The current schemars regex constrains the generated CRD schema, but it does not make Serde reject other strings. Use an Option<IdentityReason> with explicit Serde names to preserve the wire values and omit the field when no reason applies. Update the controller’s constructors, failure check, and tests to use Some/None.

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+/// Reason for an identity certificate failure.
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize, Eq, JsonSchema, PartialEq, Serialize)]
+pub enum IdentityReason {
+    /// The identity certificate has expired.
+    #[serde(rename = "IdentityExpired")]
+    IdentityExpired,
+    /// The identity Secret has no usable certificate.
+    #[serde(rename = "IdentityUnreadable")]
+    IdentityUnreadable,
+}
+
 /// This site's identity certificate.
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, Deserialize, Eq, JsonSchema, PartialEq, Serialize)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
 pub struct SiteIdentityStatus {
@@
-    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "String::is_empty")]
-    #[schemars(regex(pattern = "^(IdentityExpired|IdentityUnreadable)$"))]
-    pub reason: String,
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub reason: Option<IdentityReason>,
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Review comment at @operator/src/crd/grid_network.rs around lines 1057 - 1082:
Replace the free-form `SiteIdentityStatus.reason` string with an
`Option<IdentityReason>` enum for the two supported failure reasons, using
explicit Serde names to preserve the existing wire values and omitting `None`
during serialization. Update the controller’s constructors and failure check,
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…rk exists

An operator installed before its GridNetwork started in gossip, then
restarted into poll when the network appeared. The chart now passes
grid.signals and grid.peerTrust, and with no GridNetwork the operator
starts in those modes, so a fresh install never restarts.

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POST /v1alpha1/renewals authenticates the site by the grid certificate it
presents over mutual TLS and signs a CSR for a new key under the same name.
The listener requests a client certificate without requiring one, so
enroll is unchanged. The record keeps the replaced key so a renewal whose
response was lost can retry. A reserved name, issued by bootstrap with no
token, gets its record on first renewal, and a newer bootstrap leaf
supersedes it.

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…te an enrollment

A reserved name's record comes only from a seed bootstrap signs with the CA
key, so the service registers the hub without trusting the first leaf that
renews. A replaced key asking for any key but the current one means two
parties hold the identity, and the record freezes.

A grid-admin reads a site's record with GET /v1alpha1/enrollments/{siteName}
(state, key digests, notAfter) and deletes it with DELETE, which ends
renewal and releases the name. enrollment.renewal.enabled=false refuses
every renewal with 503. Error codes are a closed set in the spec, and every
503 carries Retry-After.

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…hub identity with a mismatched key

When the CA key Secret was lost, the next bootstrap minted a fresh CA and
overwrote the bundle, splitting the grid across two CAs. Bootstrap now
decides the CA once, before it writes anything, and mints only when no CA
is distributed. It fails naming the recovery when the key is gone or does
not match. Only ca.forceRegenerate starts a new grid CA. A placeholder hub
identity is replaced only if unchanged since bootstrap read it, an identity
whose tls.key does not match its certificate is issued again, and a hub seed
that names another key is signed again.

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A 30-day leaf renewing at a third remaining expires after about 10 days
without the hub. 180 days renews around day 120 and leaves about 60. A
renewed leaf takes the service's lifetime when it is issued, so existing
30-day leaves move to 180 days at their first renewal.

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…he gateway after

When a third of the lifetime remains, the operator presents the current
certificate to the enrollment service and writes the renewed certificate
and key into the same Secret. It stores the new key before sending, so a
lost response retries with the key the service recorded, and rechecks soon
after a renewal so the next is scheduled from the new leaf. GridNetwork
status.identity reports the expiry, and an expired or unreadable identity
is Degraded.

Renewal follows the GridNetwork's declared peer trust on every check and is
off under pin, because a pinned peer refuses a renewed leaf. The gateway
loads its client certificate only at start, so after a renewal the operator
rolls the gateway Deployment. The chart grants patch on that one Deployment
while renewal is on. The operator also self-signs a grid CA only when both
TLS Secrets are absent and never overwrites one.

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A deterministic model drives enroll, renew, lost responses, cloned keys,
database restores, enrollment deletes, hub seeds, and CA key loss over a
simulated clock. After every step it checks that no two keys renew one
site, that a frozen site recovers through the documented steps, and that
the grid CA never changes without a deliberate regeneration.

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Covers the renewal flow and recovery, the 180-day lifetime, why pin trust
does not renew, the gateway roll, reading and deleting an enrollment, and
turning renewal off.

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With RENEWAL_LIFETIME set, the spiffe leg issues short-lived site
certificates and polls signals, then asserts that the hub and the site each
renew twice with an advancing notBefore and one INFO per renewal, that both
gateway mutual TLS paths and peer polls answer across every rotation, that
each gateway rolls onto its current leaf, that a replaced leaf asking for a
new key freezes the site, and that a grid-admin delete and a new invite
re-enroll it. The pin leg asserts that renewal stays off. NET_PREFIX runs
calls to LoadBalancer addresses through a rootless podman network.

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Every user-facing surface says rotation: the enrollment.rotation.enabled value, env vars, the /v1alpha1/rotations endpoint, the rotation_disabled code, status.identity.rotateAfter and rotatedAt, the rotations metric, logs, and docs.

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…compares to

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…t be read

The gauge kept the last good notAfter, so an alert never fired on broken identity material.

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…red trust

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…ake rotation when the declared trust changes

With no GridNetwork the rotation loop assumed spiffe trust, ignoring the
install's grid.peerTrust, and it re-read the declared trust only at its next
check, up to an hour later. It now applies the install's modes until a
GridNetwork exists, and the GridNetwork reconcile wakes it when the declared
trust changes, so rotation stops and says so as soon as pin is declared.

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…id ships

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…ll as mint tokens

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…hich now guard enrollments too

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…heck

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…erTrust

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…perator rolls

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