fix(docker): stop shipping the Firebase credential inside the image - #42
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WalkthroughThe change loads Firebase credentials from inline JSON or a runtime-mounted file. The container now runs as UID 10001, excludes secrets from the image, mounts persistent data under ChangesRuntime credential and deployment hardening
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change removes the Firebase credential from image layers and adds runtime validation, but file-based setup can still leave the key too broadly readable after a partial permission update, and an optional Fly path configuration can deploy without a usable credential file, disabling push delivery. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up on these bounded deployment risks. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant FcmPush
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FcmPush->>load_service_account: provide JSON and path environment values
load_service_account->>parse_service_account: parse selected credential source
parse_service_account-->>FcmPush: return credentials or initialization error
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The Fly wrapper accepted FIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_PATH as proof that a credential exists. Nothing puts a file there: the Dockerfile no longer copies one in and fly.toml declares neither [[files]] nor [mounts], so a deploy passed the check and came up with FCM disabled, dropping every push in silence. A PATH secret left over from when the image carried the credential is exactly that case, which is the state of the app today. The path form is now accepted only once fly.toml provisions a file; otherwise the inline form is required. flyctl deploy is passed the same config the check read, so the two cannot diverge. Also corrected, all downstream of removing the baked-in credential: - The FCM failure line told the operator to set a variable that may already be set. The cause is logged above it, so it now points there. - docs/deployment.md still described the in-image copy, the removed FIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE knob, and an `ls /secrets` that has no directory to list. - docs/configuration.md still said FCM init failures log a warning. - .env.example named only the path form. - The compose healthcheck duplicated the image's with the port hard-coded, so it would stop matching if SERVER_PORT changed. The image's reads SERVER_PORT from the environment; the duplicate is gone. - ./data is a bind mount, so it keeps the host's ownership and must be writable by UID 10001 before UnifiedPush is enabled.
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SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON_ENVandSERVICE_ACCOUNT_PATH_ENVhave obvious intent. Remove their///comments. Keep only the inline-precedence and empty-value fallback contract forload_service_account. Move platform rationale to deployment documentation.
src/push/fcm.rs#L17-L21: remove rustdoc for the private environment-name constants.src/push/fcm.rs#L525-L539: reduce the loader documentation to its behavioral contract.As per coding guidelines, “Write documentation and comments in English, keep comments minimal, and use
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In @.dockerignore:
- Line 8: Add /firebase-service-account.json to the Docker ignore entries so the
root-level Compose credential file is excluded from the build context; retain
the existing secrets/ entry.
In `@deploy-fly.sh`:
- Around line 27-29: Update the credential detection logic in deploy-fly.sh so
FIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_PATH is accepted only when FLY_CONFIG contains a
matching [[files]] entry for the configured guest_path and credential source; do
not treat a generic [mounts] table or unrelated [[files]] entry as sufficient.
Otherwise require FIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON.
In `@docker-compose.yml`:
- Line 19: Add FIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON to the push-backend service
environment list so the documented host-shell value is forwarded into the
container, preserving FCM operation when the service-account mount is removed.
In `@docs/deployment.md`:
- Line 195: Update both credential-file instructions in docs/deployment.md lines
195-195 and docker-compose.yml lines 28-29 to use restrictive permissions: set
ownership to UID 10001 with mode 0600, or use a dedicated group with mode 0640,
replacing mode 0644.
- Line 322: Update the deployment diagnostic instructions to set the deployed
app’s RUST_LOG runtime secret explicitly to debug using flyctl secrets set for
mostro-push-server, then instruct restoring it to info afterward; do not rely on
the local flyctl deploy environment assignment.
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In `@src/push/fcm.rs`:
- Around line 17-21: In src/push/fcm.rs lines 17-21, remove the rustdoc comments
from SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON_ENV and SERVICE_ACCOUNT_PATH_ENV. In src/push/fcm.rs
lines 525-539, reduce the load_service_account documentation to only state the
inline-precedence and empty-value fallback behavior; leave platform rationale
for deployment documentation.
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… permissions Follow-up to the CodeRabbit review. Four of the five findings are places where removing the baked-in credential moved the problem rather than closing it. - .dockerignore excluded secrets/ but not the credential the compose file bind-mounts from the context root, nor the name Firebase hands you (<project>-adminsdk-<id>.json). The Dockerfile COPYs neither, but the context still travels to a remote builder, which is the whole reason the file exists. - docker-compose.yml documented an inline escape hatch that could not work: a value set in the host shell is only forwarded when the variable is listed in `environment:`. It is now there as a bare key, so it passes through when set and is omitted when not. - Both credential-file instructions said `chmod 0644` on a private key, making it readable by every local user. Ownership goes to UID 10001 and the mode drops to 0600. - deploy-fly.sh accepted the path form on the strength of any [[files]] or [mounts] table. A [mounts] table only attaches an empty volume and proves nothing about the credential, so a data volume added later would have re-opened the silent-drop case this check exists to catch. Only [[files]] counts now. Whether its guest_path matches the secret cannot be checked here -- `flyctl secrets list` returns names, never values -- so the declared paths are printed for the operator instead. - The FCM troubleshooting steps suggested `RUST_LOG=debug flyctl deploy`, which sets the level for the local flyctl process while the deployed app stays at the level held in its Fly secret. Dockerfile: `FROM ... AS builder`, silencing the FromAsCasing warning BuildKit emits on every build of this file. Verified against the built image: the root credential file, secrets/ and .env are absent from the build context while src/, config/ and Cargo.lock remain; a 0600 credential owned by 10001 loads through the read-only mount; and Compose forwards the inline value only when the host sets it.
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The image/build-context hardening is good, but I would not approve the Fly deployment guard yet.
deploy-fly.sh treats the presence of any [[files]] table as proof that FIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_PATH is usable. It neither verifies that the file entry provisions a credential nor that its guest_path matches the runtime path held in the secret. A deployment with an unrelated [[files]] entry and a path secret can therefore pass the wrapper, start with FCM disabled, and silently drop pushes—the exact failure this guard is meant to prevent.
Please make the Fly path form verifiable (match a declared credential-file source and guest path), or require FIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON for Fly deployments and leave the path form for Compose/systemd/Kubernetes. Do not rely on printing candidate paths after the decision: the wrapper should fail before flyctl deploy when it cannot prove the credential will be available.
Local verification otherwise passed: bash -n deploy-fly.sh, cargo fmt --all -- --check, cargo test --locked (105 passed), and cargo clippy --locked --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings. GitHub checks are green. Docker is unavailable in this review environment, so I could not execute the Dockerfile runtime checks.
The previous guard accepted FIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_PATH whenever fly.toml declared any [[files]] table. An entry writing something unrelated satisfied it just as well as a credential, so a deploy with a leftover path secret could still pass and come up with FCM disabled, dropping every push in silence. Matching the declared guest_path against the secret would close that, but the wrapper cannot: `flyctl secrets list` returns names, never values, so there is nothing to compare a guest_path with. Printing the declared paths as a warning was not a fix either -- it ran after the decision, so it informed an operator whose deploy was already going ahead. Fly deploys now require FIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON. The wrapper stops reading fly.toml for this decision at all, which removes the class of bug rather than tightening a heuristic. The path form remains first-class for docker-compose, systemd and Kubernetes, where the file is genuinely under the operator's control and which do not deploy through this script. FLY_ALLOW_CREDENTIAL_PATH=1 accepts it on Fly as an assertion the operator makes explicitly, rather than one inferred from weak evidence. Exercised against a stub flyctl: a leftover path secret now exits 1 before flyctl deploy runs, the override deploys, the inline secret deploys, and a missing required secret still fails first.
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In `@docs/deployment.md`:
- Line 63: In the Fly credential setup instructions, update the duplicated
wording from “assert the the match explicitly” to “assert the match explicitly,”
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- Around line 207-208: Update the deployment instructions so the chmod command
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| `FIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_PATH` is not accepted in its place. Nothing the | ||
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| guess deploys an instance that accepts registrations and delivers nothing. If | ||
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Remove the duplicated word.
Change assert the the match explicitly to assert the match explicitly. This sentence is part of the Fly credential setup instructions.
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In `@docs/deployment.md` at line 63, In the Fly credential setup instructions,
update the duplicated wording from “assert the the match explicitly” to “assert
the match explicitly,” preserving the rest of the sentence.
The instructions ran `sudo chown 10001:10001` and then `chmod 0600`. After the chown a non-root operator no longer owns the file, so the chmod fails with "Operation not permitted" and the key is left at whatever mode it was downloaded with -- which is the exposure the two commands were added to close. Setting the mode first needs no second sudo. Verified by running the sequence: chmod succeeds while the operator still owns the file, the chown leaves it -rw------- 10001 10001, and the container still reads it through the read-only mount.
Per CLAUDE.md, `///` is for intent that is not obvious. The constants restated the environment-variable names sitting next to them, and the loader carried a paragraph of Fly and UID-10001 rationale that docs/deployment.md now covers in more depth, so the source copy was a second place to keep in sync. What stays is what a caller cannot read off the signature: inline wins, an empty inline value falls back to the path instead of failing, and the values are arguments rather than env reads so precedence is testable without mutating process-wide state. The empty-value contract was only implicit before.
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Re-reviewed the current head. The Fly deployment blocker is fixed: deploy-fly.sh now requires FIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON by default instead of inferring that a path credential is usable from weak [[files]] evidence. The path form requires an explicit FLY_ALLOW_CREDENTIAL_PATH=1 operator assertion, and the docs accurately state that this is not independently verifiable by the wrapper.
The remaining open review thread is a documentation typo only and is non-blocking.
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Dockerfilecopiedsecrets/into a layer, so the Firebase service-account private key shipped with the image.docker saveanddocker historyreach it without ever running the container, and image access is governed by registry membership rather than by anything this repo controls. That set changed recently when the app moved to a shared Fly organisation, which is what moved this up the list.The credential now arrives at runtime
Two forms, exactly one required:
FIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSONFIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_PATHThe inline form leads for a specific reason rather than taste: the container now runs as UID 10001, and a file the platform mounts carries ownership and mode this project does not control. Fly's docs do not specify either for
[[files]], and the failure mode of guessing wrong is silent — FCM starts disabled and every push is dropped. An environment variable is readable by the process whatever its UID, and it is howSERVER_PRIVATE_KEYalready travels.load_service_accounttakes both values as arguments instead of reading the environment itself, so precedence is tested without mutating process-wide state. An empty inline value is treated as absent rather than as a parse failure, since a half-set variable should fall back to a working file rather than break.A second exposure, not in the issue
There was no
.dockerignore. The whole build context —secrets/,.env,target/,.git/— was sent to the daemon on every build, and Fly builds on a remote builder by default, so that content left the machine each deploy. Removing theCOPYcloses the image;.dockerignorecloses the context. The Dockerfile only needsCargo.toml,Cargo.lock,src/andconfig/.Making the failure loud
Removing the
COPYmakes "no credential" a likely deployment slip rather than a corner case, and the existing behaviour was to log awarn!and carry on — an instance that accepts registrations and delivers nothing, with one line of scrollback as the only symptom. Two changes:main.rslogs aterror!and names both variables. The server still starts, because a Nostr listener and an HTTP API without push beat no server at all.deploy-fly.shrefuses to deploy when neither credential secret exists. ItsREQUIRED_SECRETSlist previously demandedFIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_PATH, which would have blocked every deploy using the inline form.Container hardening
useradd --uidalone picks the GID from the system range, soUSER 10001:10001would have named a group absent from/etc/group. Caught while re-reading the file, not by a build.WORKDIR /appwithdata/owned by the runtime user, so the UnifiedPush endpoint store still works if that backend is ever enabled.HEALTHCHECKagainst/api/health, plus[[http_service.checks]]infly.toml. These are not redundant: Fly ignores Docker health checks and runs its own, andfly statuscurrently reports no checks at all.curlis added solely for the Docker form; the tradeoff is called out in a comment so it can be rejected.Also fixed
docker-compose.ymlwas already broken for FCM before this change: it bind-mounted the credential but never setFIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_PATH, so the service account resolved toNoneevery time. It also forcedUNIFIEDPUSH_ENABLED=true. Both corrected, with the UID 10001 readability requirement documented next to the mount.Verification
56 tests pass (7 new, covering precedence, the empty-value fallback, and every failure path),
cargo fmt --checkandcargo clippy --all-targetsclean,deploy-fly.shpassesbash -n,fly.tomlparses.The image itself is unverified. Docker was not available in the environment this was written in, and for a Dockerfile change that is a real gap. Worth running before merge:
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Touches
src/push/fcm.rs, as does #41. The production change is a small isolated hunk, but both PRs append a test module to the end of that file, so a conflict there is certain — mechanical to resolve by concatenating. Merge #41 first.Set
FIREBASE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSONon Fly before deploying an image built from this Dockerfile.deploy-fly.shnow blocks the deploy if it is missing, but the ordering is secret first, deploy second.Closes #15
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