Name the tiers after what a job gets, and put the reader first

The README grew alongside the tool and ended up in the order the work
happened rather than the order a reader needs. Three things were wrong with
it. The two-tier split was implicit, so a reader had to sort out which
paragraphs applied to the host they were building. The opening defined the
whole tool as "no Docker socket in job containers, and deny-by-default
egress", which describes one tier only - someone building the other was told
it does things it deliberately will not do. And long-form justification sat
between the reader and the steps.

So the README is now tier-first: pick a tier from a comparison table, then
follow only that tier's half. Everything that is background rather than
instruction moved to docs/reference.md, with docs/README.md indexing it and
the Proxmox runbook. The runbook stays in proxmox/ beside the firewall
template it explains.

The tier names changed with it. `ci` and `runtime` were dejima's words for
these hosts: `ci` distinguishes nothing on a tool whose whole subject is CI,
and `runtime` only means something if you already know dejima's runtime tests
are the workload that forced the tier to exist. They are `confined` and
`privileged` now, after what a job on each is granted. The distinction that
generalises is where the security boundary sits - inside the host for one,
on the hypervisor for the other - and the table leads with it.

`unprivileged`/`privileged` would have been the more standard pairing and was
rejected: two characters apart on a flag where a misread silently produces a
host that looks hardened and is not.

The old --role values still work and say what they are now called rather than
translating silently. examples/ is renamed to match on both sides, so no
file's tier is implied by the absence of a suffix, and the config mounts in
the compose files follow.

Written down explicitly for the first time: the privileged tier has no egress
allowlist by design. Its jobs hold the socket and run in the host's network
namespace, so any filter installed there is one they can flush. Installing it
anyway would leave a host that looks like it has an allowlist, which is worse
than one that plainly does not.

Also adds GPL-3.0-or-later to match dejima: LICENSE plus SPDX headers on the
scripts.

bats test/ passes, 21/21. All four --role values and an invalid one behave as
intended; the compose and act_runner examples still parse.
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# dejima-ci-hardener
Hardens a CI runner that executes agent-authored code on every pull request,
and gives it as little as possible to execute it with: no Docker socket in job
containers, and deny-by-default egress whose allowlist comes from
`.dejima/allowed-domains` on each served repository's `main`.
Hardens a CI runner host that executes agent-authored code on every pull
request, and gives its jobs as little as possible to execute it with.
**This is the only thing you clone onto a CI box.** It is self-contained -
there is no step that copies files out of a dejima checkout, and dejima itself
never needs to be present here.
There are two kinds of runner host, and which one you are building changes
almost everything below. Pick the tier first, then follow only its half.
For *why* any of this is necessary - what a CI run adds over a sandbox, and
why no approval gate is offered - see dejima's `docs/ci.md`. You do not need
it to follow this.
## The runner host itself
`install.sh` hardens the runners on a machine you already have. For the
privileged tier that is the wrong starting point - its jobs get the Docker
socket, so the assumption has to be that a compromised job gets root on that
host, and handing an existing machine to that assumption is not a decision
many people would make deliberately.
**[proxmox/README.md](proxmox/README.md)** builds one instead: a runbook for
the Proxmox web console, then one script inside the VM.
```sh
# inside the new VM, once the console steps are done
sudo ./bin/dejima-ci-bootstrap --role runtime --mgmt <your-ip>
```
On `--role runtime` that deliberately stops short of running `install.sh`. The
job network, its resolver and its DOCKER-USER rules all work by sitting in
front of job traffic on a bridge, and this tier's jobs are in the host's
network namespace where no bridge is. Installing them would cost an evening
and leave a host that looks like it has an egress allowlist.
The node half is a runbook rather than a script on purpose. Something that
runs `qm create` and writes into `/etc/pve/firewall/` is exactly what gets
pasted into a root shell unread, and the blast radius is every VM on the node.
The in-VM half is a script, because running that one blind costs you a machine
built to be lost.
### The boundary is on the node, not in the VM
The privileged tier hands job containers the Docker socket, which is
root-equivalent on their host. So the working assumption is that a compromised
job **has root in that VM** — and root can flush any firewall it can see.
Everything installed inside the VM is therefore defence in depth: real against
a compromised job that has not escaped its container, which is the ordinary
case, and worth nothing against one that has.
What holds either way is the Proxmox firewall, applied to the VM's tap device
and unreachable from the guest. It denies the VM every RFC1918 destination
except two pinholes — the forge on 443 and a resolver on 53 — and those two
are the entire remaining LAN exposure.
Public egress is deliberately *not* restricted there - not by address and not
by port. An address allowlist on the node would break on every CDN rotation,
and a port allowlist buys nothing: an earlier version permitted only tcp/80,
tcp/443 and udp/123, which broke apt on a first install, and anyone who owns
that box tunnels over 443 like everybody else. Neither would hold against VM
root in any case.
Note what that leaves. On this tier there is no egress allowlist in front of
job containers either - they are in the host's network namespace, so nothing
is in front of them. A privileged job reaches the whole public internet by
design. What it does not reach is your LAN.
The guarantee is narrower and honest, and it is the one worth making: an
attacker who owns that VM reaches the internet, and not your network.
One thing to check rather than assume, because its absence looks exactly like
it working: **the datacenter firewall must be enabled** (Datacenter → Firewall
→ Options → Firewall: Yes), and the VM's network device must have its own
**Firewall** checkbox ticked. Without either, the per-VM rules apply to
nothing. `pve-firewall compile` on the node is the check, and
[proxmox/README.md](proxmox/README.md) has a from-inside-the-VM check that
does not rely on reading configuration at all.
### Snapshot, and roll back on a cadence
The VM is worth losing, which is only true if losing it is cheap. Register the
runner, then snapshot — **VM → Snapshots → Take Snapshot**, named `clean`,
**before the first job runs** and with *Include RAM* unticked. One taken later
preserves whatever that job left; one taken before registration drops the
runner off the forge on every rollback; one with RAM restores the guest's clock
along with it, and a VM that thinks it is last month cannot verify a
certificate.
Rolling back after anything suspicious is not optional. Rolling back *on a
schedule* is the more valuable of the two, because it does not depend on your
having noticed — and it is the one that stops happening once doing it by hand
gets old. Proxmox schedules backups, not rollbacks, so it is a cron entry on
the node; [proxmox/README.md](proxmox/README.md) §6 has the line, why each part
of it is what it is, how to confirm it is still running, and why the baseline
needs refreshing every month or two.
## Do not install this next to dejima
This runs on a machine whose job is to execute untrusted code. dejima runs on
@@ -105,7 +22,65 @@ makes either worth anything, and this program holds a forge token and rewrites
a resolver's configuration - neither of which belongs within reach of a
sandbox session.
## Install
## Two tiers, and you must pick one
The difference is not how much a job is granted. It is **where the security
boundary sits**, and therefore what you have to build to have one at all.
| | **confined** | **privileged** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Built by | `--role confined` | `--role privileged` |
| Docker socket in job containers | no | **yes** |
| Job networking | its own bridge | the host's namespace |
| Egress allowlist in front of jobs | yes, from each repo's `main` | **none, by design** |
| The boundary is | in the host | on the hypervisor |
| Treat this host as | expected to hold | already lost |
| Runs `install.sh` | yes | no, deliberately |
| For | tests, lint, anything needing no daemon | image builds, tests needing a real daemon or host networking |
**Confined** is where everything belongs that can go there. Its jobs get no
Docker socket, run on a bridge this tool creates, and reach only the domains
the served repositories declare in `.dejima/allowed-domains` on their `main`.
`install.sh` builds all of that, and it is reasonable to run on a machine you
already have.
**Privileged** exists for the jobs that cannot work otherwise: building a
Docker image, or dejima's own runtime tests, which assert things about a real
daemon and a real host network. Both grants are root-equivalent on the host,
and neither can be reduced without breaking the job they exist for. That tier
needs a machine built to be lost, not a machine you own.
### The privileged tier has no egress allowlist, on purpose
This is the split's most important consequence and the easiest to read as an
omission, so plainly: it is not one.
The confined tier's allowlist works because its jobs cannot reach it. The
rules sit on a bridge their traffic has to cross, in a network namespace they
are not in, enforced by a kernel they hold no privileged access to.
A privileged job has all three. It holds the Docker socket, which is
root-equivalent on that host, and it runs in the host's own network namespace.
Any filter installed there is one it can flush in a single command. Installing
it anyway would cost an evening and leave a host that *looks* like it has an
egress allowlist, which is worse than one that plainly does not: the next
person to reason about that machine reasons from the label.
So `dejima-ci-bootstrap --role privileged` deliberately stops short of running
`install.sh`, and the boundary moves outward - to the hypervisor's firewall,
applied to the VM's tap device, where the guest cannot reach it.
The guarantee that survives is narrower and honest, and it is the one worth
making: **an attacker who owns that VM reaches the internet, and not your
network.**
---
# The confined tier
## Build or harden the host
Either works. On a machine you already have:
```sh
sudo apt-get install ipset iptables dnsmasq
@@ -114,11 +89,21 @@ cd dejima-ci-hardener
sudo ./install.sh
```
`install.sh` prompts for each value, offering whatever is already configured
as the default, and does the whole job: creates the Docker network with a
fixed bridge name, writes the resolver config, installs
`dejima-ci-allowlist` and `dejima-ci-firewall`, installs and enables the
systemd units, and renders the first allowlist.
On a fresh VM, [proxmox/README.md](proxmox/README.md) builds one and
`dejima-ci-bootstrap` finishes it - packages, sshd, unattended upgrades, the
host's own egress policy, and then `install.sh` for the job allowlist:
```sh
sudo ./bin/dejima-ci-bootstrap --role confined --mgmt <your-ip>
```
## What `install.sh` does
It prompts for each value, offering whatever is already configured as the
default, and does the whole job: creates the Docker network with a fixed
bridge name, writes the resolver config, installs `dejima-ci-allowlist` and
`dejima-ci-firewall`, installs and enables the systemd units, and renders the
first allowlist.
**Idempotent** - re-running and pressing Enter at every prompt changes
nothing, so it is also how to change one setting later.
@@ -135,7 +120,7 @@ What it asks for:
| Repositories | `owner/repo` per line - adding one trusts that repository's `main` |
| Base domains | allowed regardless of any project declaration |
### The upstream resolver
## The upstream resolver
The one setting that is genuinely ambiguous, so: it is the resolver **dnsmasq
forwards allowed queries to** - the one that actually knows the answers.
@@ -158,31 +143,110 @@ if that name is internal, this has to be your internal DNS. `no-resolv` in the
dnsmasq config means it will not read `/etc/resolv.conf` itself, which is why
it must be named explicitly.
### The runners
## The runner
`install.sh` does not register runners - that needs a token from your forge
and is the one step it cannot do for you. `examples/` has the configuration
they need:
and is the one step it cannot do for you.
| File | Install as |
| --- | --- |
| `examples/act-runner-ci.yaml` | the ordinary runner's `config.yaml` |
| `examples/act-runner-runtime.yaml` | the privileged runner's, on its own host |
| `examples/docker-compose.yml` | several ordinary runners on one host |
| `examples/docker-compose-runtime.yml` | the privileged one |
| `examples/act-runner-confined.yaml` | the runner's `config.yaml` |
| `examples/docker-compose-confined.yml` | several runners on one host |
| `examples/docker-daemon.json` | `/etc/docker/daemon.json` - merge, do not overwrite |
Set `--dns=<your gateway>` in the ordinary runner's `container.options`, and
register at **repository or organization** scope. That last part is not
housekeeping — see below.
Set `--dns=<your gateway>` in `container.options`, and register at
**repository or organization** scope - see [Register scope is the
boundary](#register-scope-is-the-boundary-the-label-is-not).
### Register scope is the boundary; the label is not
---
# The privileged tier
## Build the VM. Do not harden an existing one.
`install.sh` hardens the runners on a machine you already have. For this tier
that is the wrong starting point - its jobs get the Docker socket, so the
assumption has to be that a compromised job gets root on that host, and
handing an existing machine to that assumption is not a decision many people
would make deliberately.
**[proxmox/README.md](proxmox/README.md)** builds one instead: a runbook for
the Proxmox web console, then one script inside the VM.
```sh
# inside the new VM, once the console steps are done
sudo ./bin/dejima-ci-bootstrap --role privileged --mgmt <your-ip>
```
The node half is a runbook rather than a script on purpose. Something that
runs `qm create` and writes into `/etc/pve/firewall/` is exactly what gets
pasted into a root shell unread, and the blast radius is every VM on the node.
The in-VM half is a script, because running that one blind costs you a machine
built to be lost.
## The boundary is on the node, not in the VM
Everything installed inside the VM is defence in depth: real against a
compromised job that has not escaped its container, which is the ordinary
case, and worth nothing against one that has.
What holds either way is the Proxmox firewall, applied to the VM's tap device
and unreachable from the guest. It denies the VM every RFC1918 destination
except two pinholes - the forge on 443 and a resolver on 53 - and those two
are the entire remaining LAN exposure. Public egress is deliberately *not*
restricted there;
[docs/reference.md](docs/reference.md#why-public-egress-is-not-restricted-on-the-node)
says why, and why a port allowlist there bought nothing.
One thing to check rather than assume, because its absence looks exactly like
it working: **the datacenter firewall must be enabled** (Datacenter → Firewall
→ Options → Firewall: Yes), and the VM's network device must have its own
**Firewall** checkbox ticked. Without either, the per-VM rules apply to
nothing. `pve-firewall compile` on the node is the check, and
[proxmox/README.md](proxmox/README.md) has a from-inside-the-VM check that
does not rely on reading configuration at all.
## Snapshot, and roll back on a cadence
The VM is worth losing, which is only true if losing it is cheap. Register the
runner, then snapshot - **VM → Snapshots → Take Snapshot**, named `clean`,
**before the first job runs** and with *Include RAM* unticked. One taken later
preserves whatever that job left; one taken before registration drops the
runner off the forge on every rollback; one with RAM restores the guest's clock
along with it, and a VM that thinks it is last month cannot verify a
certificate.
Rolling back after anything suspicious is not optional. Rolling back *on a
schedule* is the more valuable of the two, because it does not depend on your
having noticed - and it is the one that stops happening once doing it by hand
gets old. Proxmox schedules backups, not rollbacks, so it is a cron entry on
the node; [proxmox/README.md](proxmox/README.md) §6 has the line, why each part
of it is what it is, how to confirm it is still running, and why the baseline
needs refreshing every month or two.
## The runner
| File | Install as |
| --- | --- |
| `examples/act-runner-privileged.yaml` | the runner's `config.yaml`, on its own host |
| `examples/docker-compose-privileged.yml` | the runner itself |
Give it one label that nothing else carries, and grant it to as few
repositories as you can stand. There is no `--dns` to set and no job network
to join: its jobs are in the host's namespace, which is the grant the tier
exists for.
---
# Both tiers
## Register scope is the boundary; the label is not
A dedicated label routes honest jobs to the runner you prepared. It stops
nothing else, because `runs-on:` lives in the workflow file and the workflow
file lives in the branch. A branch can name any label it likes, so a session
that changes `runs-on: dejima-ci` to `runs-on: ubuntu-latest` and opens a pull
request has stepped outside everything this tool installs — provided some
request has stepped outside everything this tool installs - provided some
runner answering that label will take the job.
Whether one will depends on where your runners are registered:
@@ -222,6 +286,9 @@ egress checks fail, the resolver is fine and the packet filter is not.
## Use
Confined-tier commands. A privileged host installs none of them, which is the
point of that tier rather than a gap in it.
```sh
dejima-ci-allowlist check # what would change, without changing it
dejima-ci-allowlist render # fetch, validate, install, reload if changed
@@ -274,143 +341,15 @@ bats test/
Runs against a stubbed `curl` and `dnsmasq`.
---
## Further reading
# Reference
| | |
| --- | --- |
| [docs/](docs/) | Index of everything below |
| [docs/reference.md](docs/reference.md) | The two `docker.sock` settings, `CONFIG_FILE`, the `/data` volume, compose networks against job networks, sharing a job network between runners, why the privileged runner is separate, why the resolver is per-runner, the cache server |
| [proxmox/README.md](proxmox/README.md) | Building the sacrificial VM: node firewall rules, bootstrap, snapshot, scheduled rollback |
| dejima's `docs/ci.md` | Why a CI runner needs any of this, and why there is no approval gate |
Everything below is background. You do not need it to complete the setup.
## License
## The two settings named `docker.sock`
The compose bind and `container.docker_host` name the same path and do
opposite jobs. This is the easiest thing here to conflate:
| | Effect | Needed? |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The compose bind | The runner can reach the daemon | Yes — without it nothing runs |
| `docker_host: "-"` | Job containers *cannot* | Yes — without it every job is root on this host |
Setting the second does not remove the first, and removing the first does not
make jobs safe — it just stops the runner working.
Whether a job gets the socket is a property of **the runner**, not of the job:
a job asking for nothing unusual still receives whatever its runner grants
everything it runs.
## `CONFIG_FILE`, and why an edit can appear to do nothing
Without `CONFIG_FILE=/config.yaml` in the environment, `act_runner` does not
read the config file **at all** — it starts happily on built-in defaults,
which means the socket goes into every job container and nothing in any log
says so. If a config change appears to have no effect, check this first.
Mount the config read-only: a runner has no reason to rewrite the file that
decides what its jobs are granted.
## The `/data` volume
It holds `.runner`, written at registration: the runner's identity and its
credential for your forge (`runner.file: .runner`, resolved against the
container's working directory, which is `/data` in the official image).
- **Keep it** and `--force-recreate`, an image bump or a reboot brings back
*the same registered runner*. Without it the container comes up with no
identity — with a token still in the environment it silently registers a
*new* runner, leaving a dead entry in your forge's runner list; without one
it fails to start.
- **Delete it deliberately** to re-register: a runner moved to another
instance, or a label set you would rather establish fresh.
- **It is the only state.** Nothing else in the container is worth preserving,
which is what lets the rest of this treat a runner as disposable.
Labels come from `runner.labels` on every start rather than being frozen at
registration, so changing one is an edit and a restart.
## Compose networks and the job network are different worlds
Running several runners from one compose file makes them share a network — and
that is not the network worth worrying about.
Every service in that file is an `act_runner` *process*. The containers that
execute agent-authored code are created by the *daemon*, on the network named
by `container.network`, and compose knows nothing about them. Attaching a
service to a compose network does not put its jobs there.
So the shared network holds runner processes and nothing else, and those are
mutually trusted — each already holds the Docker socket, so separating them
protects nothing. The example names one `runners` network explicitly rather
than relying on the implicit `default`, so nothing joins it later by accident.
The compose file deliberately does **not** attach a runner to the job network
(a process holding the socket has no business sharing a network with untrusted
code), and does **not** put the runner behind the egress allowlist (those rules
filter the job bridge only — the runner is trusted, the jobs are not).
## Several runners, and whether they should share a job network
What *is* shared, with one compose file or five, is the job network: every
runner whose config names `dejima-ci` puts its jobs on that bridge. With N
runners at `capacity: 1` you get up to N jobs there at once, able to reach each
other and each other's service containers.
- **One shared job network** — the default, and why several runners can share
one config file. Every job on it has the same egress allowlist and none can
reach the host or the runners, so the added exposure is strictly job-to-job.
If the concern is a prompt-injected session reaching *outward*, this already
covers it.
- **One per runner** — worth it if concurrent jobs come from repositories that
should not interfere, or if service containers hold anything a neighbour
should not see. Costs a config file and a `docker network create` each, and
the firewall rules looped over each bridge.
The `ci-allow` ipset is shared either way — it holds destinations, not
per-bridge state, so one set and one dnsmasq serve every bridge. The wrinkle
is DNS: `daemon.json`'s `dns` is a single daemon-wide address that would sit
on one bridge and be unreachable from the others. Give dnsmasq a stable
address on a dummy interface, point `daemon.json` there, and let each
bridge's `INPUT` rule allow port 53 to it.
## Why the privileged runner is separate
It is handed the Docker daemon and the host's network namespace, because one
job cannot work without them and neither grant can be reduced without breaking
it. A job on it can take the machine it runs on — so that machine should exist
for nothing else. A separate compose file makes a separate host the default,
rather than something to disentangle later.
Where the two tiers do share a machine, be clear about what that is: **label
tiering, not host separation.** A job denied the socket still shares a kernel
with a runner that has it. A real reduction over granting everything to
everything; not isolation between the tiers.
It needs no bind for `/tmp/dejima-ci` — the job container gets that path
because the workflow asks for it and `container.valid_volumes` permits it, and
the host daemon resolves the source host-side.
## Why the resolver is set per-runner, not daemon-wide
`daemon.json` has a `dns` key, and pointing it at the allowlisting resolver is
the obvious way to make job containers use it. It is also wrong here, and the
failure is not obvious.
That setting applies to **every container the daemon starts**. On a host that
also runs the privileged tier, that includes containers created by its jobs
over the Docker socket — which are not job containers and were never meant to
be behind the CI resolver.
A dejima sandbox is exactly such a container, and it has a firewall of its
own. It allowlists precisely one host address: its own bridge gateway, taken
from its default route. A resolver on a *different* bridge is therefore
rejected by the sandbox's own rules, so nothing inside it resolves — and the
symptom is not "DNS is misconfigured" but the sandbox's startup self-check
reporting that a host it allows is unreachable.
`--dns` in `container.options` scopes the resolver to the containers that
runner starts, which is the set that should have it.
## The cache server
`act_runner` enables it by default, and it binds on the host *specifically* so
job containers can reach it — an inbound service exposed to untrusted code. The
firewall here blocks exactly that. Leave it off, or add a rule knowing what you
are exposing.
GPL-3.0-or-later. See [LICENSE](LICENSE).
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@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
# Copyright (C) 2026 Brad Anderson
#
# dejima-ci-allowlist - render a CI job network's DNS allowlist from the
# .dejima/allowed-domains declarations of the repositories this runner serves,
# read from the branch the operator controls.
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@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
# Copyright (C) 2026 Brad Anderson
#
# Take a fresh Debian install to a hardened CI runner host.
#
# Runs INSIDE the VM. The firewall that keeps this machine off your LAN is not
@@ -22,16 +25,17 @@ SKIP_HARDENER=0
usage() {
cat >&2 <<EOF
Usage: sudo $PROG --role ci|runtime [--mgmt IP] [--skip-hardener]
Usage: sudo $PROG --role confined|privileged [--mgmt IP] [--skip-hardener]
--role ci the ordinary tier: no Docker socket in job containers,
deny-by-default job egress
--role runtime the privileged tier: its jobs get the socket and the host
network namespace. This host is the one to treat as lost
--mgmt IP restrict sshd to this source as well as the node firewall
--skip-hardener do the host hardening only, not the allowlist install.
Implied by --role runtime, where the allowlist has nothing
to attach to
--role confined jobs are confined on this host: no Docker socket in job
containers, own bridge network, deny-by-default egress
--role privileged jobs get the socket and the host network namespace, so
nothing on this host can confine them. Treat it as lost;
the boundary is the hypervisor's firewall
--mgmt IP restrict sshd to this source as well as the node firewall
--skip-hardener do the host hardening only, not the allowlist install.
Implied by --role privileged, where the allowlist has
nothing to attach to
EOF
exit 2
}
@@ -46,7 +50,16 @@ while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
esac
shift
done
case "$ROLE" in ci|runtime) ;; *) usage ;; esac
# `ci` and `runtime` were the original spellings. They named the tiers after
# what dejima used them for rather than after what a job on them is granted,
# which is the thing that has to be legible to anyone else. Still accepted,
# and said out loud rather than translated silently.
case "$ROLE" in
confined|privileged) ;;
ci) echo "$PROG: --role ci is now --role confined" >&2; ROLE=confined ;;
runtime) echo "$PROG: --role runtime is now --role privileged" >&2; ROLE=privileged ;;
*) usage ;;
esac
die() { echo "$PROG: $*" >&2; exit 1; }
say() { printf '%s\n' "$*" >&2; }
@@ -70,14 +83,14 @@ apt-get update -qq
# machine whose value is a small surface - drops it. apt then reports success,
# the daemon is installed, and there is no `docker` binary at all.
#
# ipset and dnsmasq belong to install.sh, which only runs on the ordinary
# tier. The runtime tier's jobs are in the host network namespace, where a job
# network's resolver and its ipset have nothing to sit in front of - so on that
# role these install an unused listener on port 53, on the machine this same
# script strips listeners from forty lines below. iptables stays either way:
# the host's own egress policy uses it on both roles.
# ipset and dnsmasq belong to install.sh, which only runs on the confined
# tier. The privileged tier's jobs are in the host network namespace, where a
# job network's resolver and its ipset have nothing to sit in front of - so on
# that role these install an unused listener on port 53, on the machine this
# same script strips listeners from forty lines below. iptables stays either
# way: the host's own egress policy uses it on both roles.
tier_packages=""
if [ "$ROLE" = ci ]; then
if [ "$ROLE" = confined ]; then
tier_packages="ipset dnsmasq"
fi
apt-get install -y -qq --no-install-recommends \
@@ -193,11 +206,11 @@ fi
# particular announces the machine to the LAN it is meant to be isolated from.
say "Removing services a runner does not need..."
unwanted="avahi-daemon cups bluetooth modemmanager rpcbind"
# dnsmasq is not installed on a runtime host any more, but it was by earlier
# runs of this script, and an upgrade that leaves the old listener running is
# not an upgrade. Disabled rather than purged: someone co-locating both tiers
# on one machine still needs the package.
if [ "$ROLE" = runtime ]; then
# dnsmasq is not installed on a privileged host any more, but it was by
# earlier runs of this script, and an upgrade that leaves the old listener
# running is not an upgrade. Disabled rather than purged: someone co-locating
# both tiers on one machine still needs the package.
if [ "$ROLE" = privileged ]; then
unwanted="$unwanted dnsmasq"
fi
for svc in $unwanted; do
@@ -330,21 +343,21 @@ say "Enabling unattended security upgrades..."
dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive unattended-upgrades >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
# --- the hardener itself ----------------------------------------------------
# Only for the ordinary tier, and the reason is the same one this whole
# arrangement rests on: the runtime tier's jobs run in the HOST network
# Only for the confined tier, and the reason is the same one this whole
# arrangement rests on: the privileged tier's jobs run in the HOST network
# namespace. No bridge sits in front of them, so a job network, its resolver
# and its DOCKER-USER rules never see their traffic. Installing that machinery
# here would take a working evening and protect nothing, and - worse - would
# leave a runtime host that looks like it has an egress allowlist.
# leave a privileged host that looks like it has an egress allowlist.
#
# What protects the runtime host is the node's firewall. That is the whole
# What protects the privileged host is the node's firewall. That is the whole
# list.
if [ "$SKIP_HARDENER" -eq 1 ]; then
say
say "Skipping install.sh (--skip-hardener)."
elif [ "$ROLE" = runtime ]; then
elif [ "$ROLE" = privileged ]; then
say
say "Not running install.sh on a runtime host, deliberately."
say "Not running install.sh on a privileged host, deliberately."
say
say "Its jobs run in the host network namespace - that is the grant the tier"
say "exists for - so no bridge is in front of them and a job network, its"
@@ -355,7 +368,7 @@ elif [ "$ROLE" = runtime ]; then
say "What protects this host is the Proxmox node's firewall, and that is the"
say "entire list. See proxmox/README.md."
say
say "If this machine also runs ordinary runners - not recommended, and not"
say "If this machine also runs confined runners - not recommended, and not"
say "what the tiering is for - run ./install.sh by hand."
else
say
@@ -378,18 +391,18 @@ cat >&2 <<EOF
Enabling it before that file is filled in will cut this host off from the
forge, which is why it is not enabled for you.
On a runtime host this is the only egress control inside the VM, and it is
still not a boundary: root here can drop it. The node's firewall is the
On a privileged host this is the only egress control inside the VM, and it
is still not a boundary: root here can drop it. The node's firewall is the
boundary.
2. Register the runner. This script does not, because it needs a token from
your forge:
- role ci: label it something no other runner carries, and point
container.network / --dns at what install.sh printed
- role runtime: this is the privileged tier - socket and host netns.
Give it one label that nothing else carries, and grant
it to as few repositories as you can stand.
- role confined: label it something no other runner carries, and point
container.network / --dns at what install.sh printed
- role privileged: socket and host netns. Give it one label that nothing
else carries, and grant it to as few repositories as
you can stand.
3. In the Proxmox console, once step 2 shows the runner Online, snapshot this
VM - BEFORE the first job runs, and with 'Include RAM' UNTICKED:
@@ -412,6 +425,6 @@ cat >&2 <<EOF
Remember what is and is not enforced here. The node's firewall keeps this
machine off your LAN and cannot be reached from inside it. Everything this
script installed can be removed by root on this host - which, on the runtime
role, is what a compromised job is assumed to get.
script installed can be removed by root on this host - which, on the
privileged role, is what a compromised job is assumed to get.
EOF
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# Documentation
The [README](../README.md) is the whole of the setup. Everything here is
background, deeper explanation, or the reasoning behind a decision that looks
arbitrary from outside.
| | |
| --- | --- |
| [reference.md](reference.md) | The two settings named `docker.sock`, `CONFIG_FILE` and why an edit can appear to do nothing, the `/data` volume, compose networks against job networks, whether several runners should share a job network, why the privileged runner is separate, why public egress is not restricted on the node, why the resolver is set per-runner, the cache server |
| [../proxmox/README.md](../proxmox/README.md) | Building the sacrificial VM: node firewall rules and the order they go in, bootstrap, snapshotting clean, and the scheduled rollback |
| [../proxmox/firewall.fw.template](../proxmox/firewall.fw.template) | The same node firewall as one annotated file, easier to review in one piece than as a table. Reference, not something to install |
One document lives outside this repository: dejima's `docs/ci.md`, which
covers why a CI run needs any of this over a sandbox, and why no approval gate
is offered. You do not need it to follow the README.
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# Reference
Background. You do not need any of it to complete the setup - the
[README](../README.md) is self-contained. This is where the reasoning lives
for the decisions that look arbitrary from outside, and the failure modes that
present as something other than what they are.
## The two settings named `docker.sock`
The compose bind and `container.docker_host` name the same path and do
opposite jobs. This is the easiest thing here to conflate:
| | Effect | Needed? |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The compose bind | The runner can reach the daemon | Yes — without it nothing runs |
| `docker_host: "-"` | Job containers *cannot* | Yes — without it every job is root on this host |
Setting the second does not remove the first, and removing the first does not
make jobs safe — it just stops the runner working.
Whether a job gets the socket is a property of **the runner**, not of the job:
a job asking for nothing unusual still receives whatever its runner grants
everything it runs.
## `CONFIG_FILE`, and why an edit can appear to do nothing
Without `CONFIG_FILE=/config.yaml` in the environment, `act_runner` does not
read the config file **at all** — it starts happily on built-in defaults,
which means the socket goes into every job container and nothing in any log
says so. If a config change appears to have no effect, check this first.
Mount the config read-only: a runner has no reason to rewrite the file that
decides what its jobs are granted.
## The `/data` volume
It holds `.runner`, written at registration: the runner's identity and its
credential for your forge (`runner.file: .runner`, resolved against the
container's working directory, which is `/data` in the official image).
- **Keep it** and `--force-recreate`, an image bump or a reboot brings back
*the same registered runner*. Without it the container comes up with no
identity — with a token still in the environment it silently registers a
*new* runner, leaving a dead entry in your forge's runner list; without one
it fails to start.
- **Delete it deliberately** to re-register: a runner moved to another
instance, or a label set you would rather establish fresh.
- **It is the only state.** Nothing else in the container is worth preserving,
which is what lets the rest of this treat a runner as disposable.
Labels come from `runner.labels` on every start rather than being frozen at
registration, so changing one is an edit and a restart.
## Compose networks and the job network are different worlds
Running several runners from one compose file makes them share a network — and
that is not the network worth worrying about.
Every service in that file is an `act_runner` *process*. The containers that
execute agent-authored code are created by the *daemon*, on the network named
by `container.network`, and compose knows nothing about them. Attaching a
service to a compose network does not put its jobs there.
So the shared network holds runner processes and nothing else, and those are
mutually trusted — each already holds the Docker socket, so separating them
protects nothing. The example names one `runners` network explicitly rather
than relying on the implicit `default`, so nothing joins it later by accident.
The compose file deliberately does **not** attach a runner to the job network
(a process holding the socket has no business sharing a network with untrusted
code), and does **not** put the runner behind the egress allowlist (those rules
filter the job bridge only — the runner is trusted, the jobs are not).
## Several runners, and whether they should share a job network
What *is* shared, with one compose file or five, is the job network: every
runner whose config names `dejima-ci` puts its jobs on that bridge. With N
runners at `capacity: 1` you get up to N jobs there at once, able to reach each
other and each other's service containers.
- **One shared job network** — the default, and why several runners can share
one config file. Every job on it has the same egress allowlist and none can
reach the host or the runners, so the added exposure is strictly job-to-job.
If the concern is a prompt-injected session reaching *outward*, this already
covers it.
- **One per runner** — worth it if concurrent jobs come from repositories that
should not interfere, or if service containers hold anything a neighbour
should not see. Costs a config file and a `docker network create` each, and
the firewall rules looped over each bridge.
The `ci-allow` ipset is shared either way — it holds destinations, not
per-bridge state, so one set and one dnsmasq serve every bridge. The wrinkle
is DNS: `daemon.json`'s `dns` is a single daemon-wide address that would sit
on one bridge and be unreachable from the others. Give dnsmasq a stable
address on a dummy interface, point `daemon.json` there, and let each
bridge's `INPUT` rule allow port 53 to it.
## Why the privileged runner is separate
It is handed the Docker daemon and the host's network namespace, because one
job cannot work without them and neither grant can be reduced without breaking
it. A job on it can take the machine it runs on — so that machine should exist
for nothing else. A separate compose file makes a separate host the default,
rather than something to disentangle later.
Where the two tiers do share a machine, be clear about what that is: **label
tiering, not host separation.** A job denied the socket still shares a kernel
with a runner that has it. A real reduction over granting everything to
everything; not isolation between the tiers.
It needs no bind for `/tmp/dejima-ci` — the job container gets that path
because the workflow asks for it and `container.valid_volumes` permits it, and
the host daemon resolves the source host-side.
## Why public egress is not restricted on the node
The Proxmox firewall in [proxmox/README.md](../proxmox/README.md) denies the
privileged VM every RFC1918 destination and leaves the public internet to the
default policy. That asymmetry is deliberate, and it is the opposite of what
an earlier version of that runbook said.
An address allowlist there would break on every CDN rotation. A port allowlist
buys nothing: an earlier version permitted only tcp/80, tcp/443 and udp/123,
which broke apt on a first install, and each breakage presented as a network
fault rather than as a firewall rule. Anyone who owns that box tunnels over
443 like everybody else, and neither restriction would hold against VM root in
any case.
Deny-by-default earns its keep where the protected set is enumerable, which is
the LAN. The internet is not, and pretending otherwise produced a rule set
that looked strict and only got in the way.
Note what that leaves. On the privileged tier there is no egress allowlist in
front of job containers either — they are in the host's network namespace, so
nothing is in front of them. A privileged job reaches the whole public
internet by design. What it does not reach is your LAN.
## Why the resolver is set per-runner, not daemon-wide
`daemon.json` has a `dns` key, and pointing it at the allowlisting resolver is
the obvious way to make job containers use it. It is also wrong here, and the
failure is not obvious.
That setting applies to **every container the daemon starts**. On a host that
also runs the privileged tier, that includes containers created by its jobs
over the Docker socket — which are not job containers and were never meant to
be behind the CI resolver.
A dejima sandbox is exactly such a container, and it has a firewall of its
own. It allowlists precisely one host address: its own bridge gateway, taken
from its default route. A resolver on a *different* bridge is therefore
rejected by the sandbox's own rules, so nothing inside it resolves — and the
symptom is not "DNS is misconfigured" but the sandbox's startup self-check
reporting that a host it allows is unreachable.
`--dns` in `container.options` scopes the resolver to the containers that
runner starts, which is the set that should have it.
## The cache server
`act_runner` enables it by default, and it binds on the host *specifically* so
job containers can reach it — an inbound service exposed to untrusted code. The
firewall here blocks exactly that. Leave it off, or add a rule knowing what you
are exposing.
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
# act_runner configuration for a runner that executes agent-authored code and
# is granted nothing to execute it with. This is the ordinary tier: everything
# is granted nothing to execute it with. This is the confined tier: everything
# except the one job that genuinely needs a Docker daemon belongs here.
#
# Written against act_runner v0.6.1. Check yours with `act_runner --version`,
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@
# one without anything in a job's output looking different.
#
# Not runnable as written: pick your own network name, subnet and label, and
# see ci/README.md for the order things have to be created in.
# see this repository's README for the order things have to be created in.
#
# See docs/ci.md for why each of these is here.
# See dejima's docs/ci.md for why each of these is here.
log:
level: info
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ container:
# A network created ahead of time, with a named bridge, so that the
# interface name and gateway are stable enough to write firewall rules
# against. Left empty, act_runner creates one per job and there is nothing
# fixed to match on. See ci/iptables-ci.example.sh.
# fixed to match on. See bin/dejima-ci-firewall.
#
# NOT `host`: that would put jobs in this machine's network namespace, where
# no bridge-based filtering applies to them at all.
@@ -14,14 +14,14 @@
# - holds no credentials beyond its own registration token,
# - is rebuilt from a snapshot on a schedule.
#
# Sharing a machine with the ordinary runner (ci/act-runner-ci.example.yaml)
# Sharing a machine with the confined runner (examples/act-runner-confined.yaml)
# gives you label tiering, not host separation: a job denied the socket still
# shares a kernel and a network with a runner that has it. That is a real
# reduction and worth doing if one machine is what you have - just do not read
# it as isolation.
#
# Written against act_runner v0.6.1. Not runnable as written.
# See docs/ci.md.
# See dejima's docs/ci.md.
log:
level: info
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ cache:
enabled: false
container:
# Left unset ON PURPOSE, which is the opposite of the ordinary runner. Unset
# Left unset ON PURPOSE, which is the opposite of the confined runner. Unset
# means act_runner mounts /var/run/docker.sock into job containers, and the
# job here builds an image and boots real containers over it.
#
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# The static half of the job network's resolver. Install as
# /etc/dnsmasq.d/dejima-ci.conf - see "Where each file goes" in ci/README.md.
# /etc/dnsmasq.d/ci-allow.conf - written by install.sh. See this repository's README.
#
# There are no `server=` lines here on purpose. Every allowed name is rendered
# into a SECOND file, /etc/dnsmasq.d/ci-allow.conf, by
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
# off encoding data into query names to a domain you never allowed.
#
# Not runnable as written: the addresses below are RFC 5737 documentation
# ranges. Substitute your own, and read the subnet note in ci/README.md before
# ranges. Substitute your own, and read the subnet note in etc/config.example before
# picking one - "private" is load-bearing here, not tidiness.
# bind-dynamic, not bind-interfaces. Both keep this resolver off every other
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ ipset=/#/ci-allow
# never on any list.
#
# This is keyed on the private ranges, which is one of the reasons the job
# bridge itself should use one - see ci/README.md.
# bridge itself should use one - see this repository's README.
stop-dns-rebind
# A self-hosted forge legitimately resolves to a private address, which
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
# The ordinary runners: several on one host, sharing one config file and
# The confined runners: several on one host, sharing one config file and
# therefore one label, so a job naming that label lands on whichever is free.
#
# The privileged runner is NOT here. It has its own compose file, because it
# belongs on its own host - see ci/docker-compose-runtime.example.yml.
# belongs on its own host - see examples/docker-compose-privileged.yml.
#
# The thing to understand before reading the rest: compose's networks and the
# job network are different worlds. Every service below is an act_runner
@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@
# created by the Docker daemon, on the network named by `container.network` in
# each runner's config.yaml, and compose knows nothing about them. Attaching a
# service here to a network does not put its jobs there, and vice versa. See
# ci/README.md for what that means for isolating jobs from each other.
# docs/reference.md for what that means for isolating jobs from each other.
#
# Not runnable as written: substitute your own instance URL, image tag and
# subnet, and create the job network first (ci/README.md, step 2).
# subnet, and create the job network first - install.sh does it for you.
name: dejima-runners
# Shared by every ordinary runner. Volumes are per-service rather than here,
# Shared by every confined runner. Volumes are per-service rather than here,
# because each runner needs its own /data - and YAML merge keys merge mappings
# but not lists, so a volumes: in a service replaces this one rather than
# adding to it. Repeating them is the honest form.
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ x-ci-env: &ci-env
GITEA_RUNNER_REGISTRATION_TOKEN: ${GITEA_RUNNER_REGISTRATION_TOKEN:-}
services:
# --- ordinary runners -----------------------------------------------------
# --- confined runners -----------------------------------------------------
# All three share one config file, and therefore one label and one job
# network. That is what makes them a pool: a job naming dejima-ci lands on
# whichever is free. Only the name and the data volume differ.
@@ -57,11 +57,11 @@ services:
volumes:
# The runner's OWN access to the daemon, so it can create job
# containers. NOT the same setting as container.docker_host, which
# decides whether job containers get the socket - see ci/README.md.
# decides whether job containers get the socket - see docs/reference.md.
- /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
# Read-only: a runner has no reason to rewrite the file deciding what
# its jobs are granted.
- ./act-runner-ci.yaml:/config.yaml:ro
- ./act-runner-confined.yaml:/config.yaml:ro
# Its registration identity. One per runner, never shared - two runners
# cannot share a .runner.
- ci-1-data:/data
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ services:
GITEA_RUNNER_NAME: dejima-ci-2
volumes:
- /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
- ./act-runner-ci.yaml:/config.yaml:ro
- ./act-runner-confined.yaml:/config.yaml:ro
- ci-2-data:/data
ci-3:
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ services:
GITEA_RUNNER_NAME: dejima-ci-3
volumes:
- /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
- ./act-runner-ci.yaml:/config.yaml:ro
- ./act-runner-confined.yaml:/config.yaml:ro
- ci-3-data:/data
networks:
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ networks:
# would protect nothing.
#
# The job network is deliberately absent. It is created by hand with a fixed
# bridge name so the firewall can match on it (ci/README.md, step 2), and
# bridge name so the firewall can match on it (install.sh does this), and
# act_runner attaches job containers to it by name. Declaring it here would
# invite attaching a service to it, which is exactly what must not happen: a
# process holding the Docker socket has no business sharing a network with
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
# nothing else: no other service, no route to a LAN or management network, no
# credentials beyond its own registration token, rebuilt from a snapshot on a
# schedule. That is why this is a separate file rather than another service
# alongside the ordinary runners - a separate host is the intended
# alongside the confined runners - a separate host is the intended
# arrangement, and a compose file that assumes it is harder to drift away from
# than one that has to be split later.
#
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
# with a runner that has it. That is a real reduction over granting everything
# to everything, and it is not isolation between the tiers.
#
# Pair with ci/act-runner-runtime.example.yaml. Not runnable as written:
# Pair with examples/act-runner-privileged.yaml. Not runnable as written:
# substitute your own instance URL and image tag.
name: dejima-runtime
@@ -52,10 +52,10 @@ services:
# The runner's own access to the daemon, so it can create job
# containers. On this tier the config file ALSO passes the socket into
# those containers, which is the grant that makes this host sacrificial;
# on the ordinary tier it does not. Same bind, different consequence,
# on the confined tier it does not. Same bind, different consequence,
# decided entirely by container.docker_host in the config.
- /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
- ./act-runner-runtime.yaml:/config.yaml:ro
- ./act-runner-privileged.yaml:/config.yaml:ro
# Its own registration identity. Never shared with another runner.
- runtime-data:/data
# No bind for /tmp/dejima-ci. The job container gets that path because
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
# Copyright (C) 2026 Brad Anderson
#
# Install dejima-ci-allowlist and walk through its configuration.
#
# Idempotent: re-running and pressing Enter at every prompt changes nothing.
@@ -135,7 +138,7 @@ say "=============================================================="
say
say "A Docker network for job containers to run on, which this installer will"
say "create. Name it whatever you like - it only has to match container.network"
say "in each ordinary runner's config.yaml."
say "in each confined runner's config.yaml."
say
say "A runner configured for host networking (container.network: host) needs"
say "no job network - its jobs are in the host's own namespace, so no bridge"
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@@ -28,9 +28,10 @@ root-equivalent on their host. So the working assumption is not *if* but
*when*: a compromised job has root on this VM. Everything below follows from
taking that seriously rather than hoping.
Two VMs if you are following [the tiering](../README.md#register-scope-is-the-boundary-the-label-is-not):
one for the privileged runner, one for the ordinary ones. The steps are the
same; only the runner you register on each differs.
Two VMs if you are following [the
tiering](../README.md#two-tiers-and-you-must-pick-one): one for the privileged
runner, one for the confined ones. The steps below are the same for both; what
differs is the `--role` in §4 and the runner you register in §5.
**The firewall goes on the node, not in the guest.** Root in the VM can flush
any rule set it can see. It cannot reach one applied to its own tap device.
@@ -265,7 +266,7 @@ ssh <you>@<vm-ip>
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y git # if the install left it out
git clone https://gitbox.branderson.io/branderson/dejima-ci-hardener.git
cd dejima-ci-hardener
sudo ./bin/dejima-ci-bootstrap --role runtime --mgmt <your-management-ip>
sudo ./bin/dejima-ci-bootstrap --role privileged --mgmt <your-management-ip>
```
Two ways this stalls, both from choices made during the install:
@@ -277,13 +278,13 @@ Two ways this stalls, both from choices made during the install:
during the install, so Debian did not add you. See "Leave the root password
blank" above for the fix, or just run these as root from the console.
`--role ci` for the ordinary tier. Either way the script installs packages,
`--role confined` for the other tier. Either way the script installs packages,
hardens sshd, removes listeners a runner has no use for, and sets up
unattended security upgrades. On `--role ci` it then runs `install.sh` for the
job allowlist, its resolver and its firewall; on `--role runtime` it
deliberately does not, because those work by sitting in front of job traffic
on a bridge and this tier's jobs are in the host's network namespace, where
there is no bridge to sit on.
unattended security upgrades. On `--role confined` it then runs `install.sh`
for the job allowlist, its resolver and its firewall; on `--role privileged`
it deliberately does not, because those work by sitting in front of job
traffic on a bridge and this tier's jobs are in the host's network namespace,
where there is no bridge to sit on.
It does not register the runner — that needs a token from your forge — and it
does not enable the host's own egress policy until you have filled in
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#!/usr/bin/env bats
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
# Copyright (C) 2026 Brad Anderson
#
# Drives bin/dejima-ci-allowlist against a stubbed curl and dnsmasq, so the
# properties being checked are the ones that decide whether this program is