bri-sandbox-development-platform/DEPLOY.md

SDP — manual deploy

A copy-pasteable runbook. The principle: anything that runs on a VM is done from inside that VM (just ssh in and run it). Anything that pushes files from your laptop to a VM uses scp and prompts for the password.

No deploy.sh is involved. No sshpass. You type your passwords.

0. Pull the repo on your laptop

cd ~/wherever/bri-sandbox-development-platform
git pull origin main

Confirm the artifacts are present:

ls bin/control-plane bin/agent-micro bin/agent-gateway dashboard/out/index.html systemd/sdp-*.service

1. Kill old SDP processes on each VM (skip on a fresh VM)

On 92:

ssh administrator@172.18.136.92
pkill -f 'bin/agent-micro' 2>/dev/null; echo done
exit

On 186:

ssh administrator@172.18.139.186
pkill -f 'bin/control-plane' 2>/dev/null
pkill -f 'bin/agent-gateway' 2>/dev/null
echo done
exit

2. Sanity-check nginx and docker on 186

ssh administrator@172.18.139.186
sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl is-active docker
ls -la ~/SDP/dashboard/index.html 2>/dev/null || echo 'dashboard will be created in step 6'
exit

• nginx -t says syntax is ok → good.
• docker is active → good.
• Dashboard missing is fine; step 6 pushes it.

3. Configure nginx on 186 (only on first deploy, or after editing)

Splice the four location blocks from nginx/sandbox.conf into /etc/nginx/sites-available/default inside the existing server { }. Read the file from your laptop first:

cat nginx/sandbox.conf

On 186:

ssh administrator@172.18.139.186
sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
# paste the four blocks somewhere inside the server { }
sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl reload nginx
exit

4. Push the binaries and dashboard to the VMs

From your laptop. scp will prompt for the password.

To 92 (micro):

scp bin/agent-micro administrator@172.18.136.92:~/SDP/bin/agent-micro

To 186 (gateway):

scp bin/control-plane bin/agent-gateway administrator@172.18.139.186:~/SDP/bin/
scp -r dashboard/out/. administrator@172.18.139.186:~/SDP/dashboard/

Make binaries executable (on each VM):

ssh administrator@172.18.136.92 "chmod +x ~/SDP/bin/agent-micro"
ssh administrator@172.18.139.186 "chmod +x ~/SDP/bin/control-plane ~/SDP/bin/agent-gateway"

Pre-create the control plane's data dir on 186 (SQLite + log files live here):

ssh administrator@172.18.139.186 "mkdir -p ~/SDP/data && ls -ld ~/SDP/data"

Should print drwxr-xr-x ... administrator administrator ... /home/administrator/SDP/data. The control plane binary creates it on first run too, but doing it now means the systemd unit's ReadWritePaths check has somewhere to point at.

5. Push the systemd unit files

From your laptop. scp will prompt for the password.

scp systemd/sdp-agent-micro.service administrator@172.18.136.92:/tmp/sdp-agent-micro.service
scp systemd/sdp-control-plane.service systemd/sdp-agent-gateway.service administrator@172.18.139.186:/tmp/

6. Install the unit files and start the services

8a. 92 (micro agent only)

ssh administrator@172.18.136.92
sudo install -m 644 -o root -g root /tmp/sdp-agent-micro.service /etc/systemd/system/sdp-agent-micro.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable sdp-agent-micro.service
sudo systemctl restart sdp-agent-micro.service
sudo systemctl --no-pager status sdp-agent-micro.service | head -10
sudo journalctl -u sdp-agent-micro.service -n 10 --no-pager
exit

Status should be active (running). Journal should show a clean startup, then either a dial: ws://... reconnect loop (waiting for the control plane) or agent-micro connected as micro.

8b. 186 (control plane FIRST, then gateway agent)

sudo install -m 644 -o root -g root /tmp/sdp-control-plane.service /etc/systemd/system/sdp-control-plane.service
sudo mkdir -p /home/administrator/SDP/data
sudo chown administrator:administrator /home/administrator/SDP/data
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable sdp-control-plane.service
sudo systemctl restart sdp-control-plane.service
sudo systemctl --no-pager status sdp-control-plane.service | head -10
sudo journalctl -u sdp-control-plane.service -n 10 --no-pager

The control plane must be up before the gateway agent starts (or the agent just retries). Wait for active (running), then continue:

sudo install -m 644 -o root -g root /tmp/sdp-agent-gateway.service /etc/systemd/system/sdp-agent-gateway.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable sdp-agent-gateway.service
sudo systemctl restart sdp-agent-gateway.service
sudo systemctl --no-pager status sdp-agent-gateway.service | head -10
sudo journalctl -u sdp-agent-gateway.service -n 10 --no-pager
exit

The journal should show agent-gateway connected as gateway after a beat.

7. Browser smoke test (from your laptop)

Visit: http://172.18.139.186/sandbox/credit-card/

• HTML renders (CSS + JS load) → nginx try_files is right.
• Login form submits → /sandbox/credit-card/api/login proxies to :3452.
• Login with any Bitbucket creds returns 200 → the gateway agent ran git ls-remote successfully.
• After login, dashboard renders. Click Sandboxes → empty list (SQLite is fresh).

8. Following logs in real time

On 92 (micro agent):

ssh administrator@172.18.136.92
sudo journalctl -u sdp-agent-micro.service -f
# Ctrl-C to exit
exit

On 186 (control plane + gateway agent):

ssh administrator@172.18.139.186
sudo journalctl -u sdp-control-plane.service -u sdp-agent-gateway.service -f
# Ctrl-C to exit
exit

Common one-time fixes (apply, then re-run from step 6)

${SDP_CP_URL} doesn't expand in the unit's ExecStart

Symptom: agent logs flag: invalid value "${SDP_CP_URL}" for -cp.

Fix: hardcode the URL in the unit. On your laptop, edit systemd/sdp-agent-micro.service:

ExecStart=/home/administrator/SDP/bin/agent-micro -node micro -cp ws://172.18.139.186:3452/ws/agent

(Remove the Environment= / EnvironmentFile= / ${SDP_CP_URL} lines.) Do the same for systemd/sdp-agent-gateway.service (URL is ws://127.0.0.1:3452/ws/agent). Re-do steps 7 and 8.

Micro agent on 92 can't reach the control plane on 186:3452

Symptom: sdp-agent-micro.service journal shows dial: ... connection refused or i/o timeout to 172.18.139.186:3452.

Fix: add a /ws/agent proxy block to 186's nginx (alongside the four from nginx/sandbox.conf):

location /ws/agent {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3452;
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
    proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_read_timeout 3600s;
}

On your laptop, edit systemd/sdp-agent-micro.service to dial through nginx on 80:

Environment=SDP_CP_URL=ws://172.18.139.186/ws/agent

(Port 80, no :3452.) Then on 186, reload nginx and re-do steps 7 and 8a.

Login returns "git ls-remote rejected"

Either:

• The gateway agent isn't connected (re-run step 6b and check the journal).

• Your Bitbucket creds are wrong.

• The api-gateway repo path on 186 is wrong. The agent looks at /var/www/html/erangel-ocean by default. On 186:

  ls -d /var/www/html/erangel-ocean
  

  If the repo is at a different path, edit agent-gateway/cmd/agent-gateway/main.go:

  var repos = map[string]string{
      "api-gateway": "/your/actual/path",
  }
  

  Then ./scripts/build.sh, re-do steps 6 and 8b.

Service containers can't be created (alpine:3.20 or php:8.3-apache not loaded)

Symptom: a deploy event stream shows DEPLOY FAILED with image not found.

The runtime images must be pre-loaded on the host (the VMs have no internet). On 92:

ssh administrator@172.18.136.92
docker load -i /path/to/alpine-3.20.tar
exit

On 186:

ssh administrator@172.18.139.186
docker load -i /path/to/php-8.3-apache.tar
docker load -i /path/to/alpine-3.20.tar
exit

Service fails with status=226/NAMESPACE and Failed to set up mount namespacing: No such file or directory

Your binary is fine; systemd's service-execution environment is broken. Diagnose by running the binary manually as administrator:

ssh administrator@172.18.139.186
./SDP/bin/control-plane -addr :3452 -data ./SDP/data
# Should print "control-plane listening on :3452 (data=./SDP/data)"
# Ctrl-C to exit
exit

If that works, the binary is fine. systemd's namespace setup is failing — common cause on this Ubuntu: /run/systemd is missing. Force it to be recreated:

ssh administrator@172.18.139.186
sudo systemctl daemon-reexec
sudo systemctl restart sdp-control-plane.service
sudo systemctl --no-pager status sdp-control-plane.service | head -10
exit

If still failing, the systemd manager itself is in a bad state. Reboot the VM (last resort; will interrupt any other work on it).

Agent-micro on 92 gets connection reset by peer connecting to 186:3452

connection reset by peer is at the TCP layer. The most common cause is a stale WebSocket connection from before 186's daemon-reexec (in step 6b). The kernel briefly drops the listening socket during re-exec; any in-flight connection that tries to use it gets RST. The agent retries every 2s, but if it connected right before the reexec and has been hammering the broken fd, just restart it:

ssh administrator@172.18.136.92
sudo systemctl restart sdp-agent-micro.service
sudo journalctl -u sdp-agent-micro.service -n 20 --no-pager -f
# Look for: "agent-micro connected as micro"
# Ctrl-C to exit journalctl
exit

If the journal shows the agent connecting and immediately seeing RST again (a tight loop with no successful connect), the path itself is being blocked. Run these on 186 to find the cause:

1. iptables on 186 has a REJECT rule for 3452:

   ssh administrator@172.18.139.186
   sudo iptables -L INPUT -n | head -30
   exit
   

   If you see a REJECT rule for port 3452, drop or modify it. The control plane is on the same host, so there's no reason to filter loopback or local-subnet traffic to it.

2. fail2ban has banned 92's IP:

   ssh administrator@172.18.139.186
   sudo fail2ban-client status
   sudo fail2ban-client status sshd 2>/dev/null
   exit
   

   If 92's IP is in the banned list, add the SDP subnet to ignoreip in /etc/fail2ban/jail.local and sudo fail2ban-client reload.

3. Verify the network path works at all (rules out firewall entirely). From 92, a plain HTTP request to the control plane's port:

   ssh administrator@172.18.136.92
   curl -v http://172.18.139.186:3452/
   exit
   

   If you get any HTTP response (a Go HTTP 404 "page not found" is the expected answer for GET /) → the path is open and the problem is the WebSocket connection state. Restart the agent as above. If you get Connection reset by peer again → the path is being blocked, look at iptables/fail2ban.

4. Verify the WS endpoint accepts an upgrade on 186 itself (rules out the control plane binary):

   ssh administrator@172.18.139.186
   curl -i \
     -H "Connection: Upgrade" -H "Upgrade: websocket" \
     -H "Sec-WebSocket-Key: dGhlIHNhbXBsZSBub25jZQ==" \
     -H "Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13" \
     "http://127.0.0.1:3452/ws/agent?node=micro"
   exit
   

   Should return HTTP 101 Switching Protocols. If it does, the network is the issue. If it doesn't, the control plane binary has a problem (look at sdp-control-plane.service journal for a startup error).

Still failing after the curl test? Check what's bound to port 3452

The control plane is one listener on port 3452 — if systemd or another process is also bound, the kernel can RST connections to the "wrong" socket. On 186:

ssh administrator@172.18.139.186
sudo ss -tlnp 'sport = :3452'
sudo lsof -i :3452
sudo systemctl list-sockets --no-legend 2>/dev/null | grep 3452
exit

You should see only one listener: control-plane PID, IPv6 *:3452 (dual-stack). If you see anything else — another systemd socket, a leftover container, a proxy — kill it. Then sudo systemctl restart sdp-control-plane.service on 186 and try the agent again.