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Let a job declare the secrets it reads

4ac42680eca3181efc70099f65d6e2c9f45e9dd2 · Keenan Nemetz · 7d ago · parent 0c40a1d3

Let a job declare the secrets it reads

A job now names the repository secrets it needs, and the instance delivers
those values when the job is leased. The workflow carries names only, so the
queue row, the metadata branch and the run record never hold a value: the
record names the version of each value the job ran with, which is what makes a
result say which one it used.

    jobs:
      deploy:
        image: alpine:3.22
        secrets: [DEPLOY_KEY]

A name the repository has no value for is not a failure. The variable is left
unset rather than empty, the step's shell can tell the difference, and the
runner writes one line to the log saying which value was missing. That keeps
an optional secret optional and leaves "required" with the step, where someone
can write the message: ${DEPLOY_KEY:?DEPLOY_KEY is not set}.

The value reaches the step through a file the runner writes into the run
directory it already mounts at /run/vole for an event payload, and each step is
prefixed with `. /run/vole/secrets.env`. That is deliberately not an env-file
argument to the runtime, which cannot carry a line break, and not --env, which
puts the value in the process's argument list where every process on the host
can read it. A local `vole workflow run` writes the same file, reading the
values with the developer's own credential, and says which ones it could not
read.

The name rule and the 128 KiB limit moved to ci, next to the environment rules
they mirror, so the store refuses a name no workflow could declare and the
workflow refuses a name no process environment could carry.

Slice 2 of #154.

docs/accounts-and-access.md +6

@@ -346,6 +346,12 @@ branch and chooses **Allow CI** there. The approval names the exact
346 346 commit, so every new push waits again. Treat runner isolation as part of the trust decision before granting
347 347 `contribute` on a public repository.
348 348
349 Allowing CI also grants that commit the repository's secrets, if its workflow
350 declares them. It is the same decision as letting the code run on a runner: the
351 values arrive on the machine that runs it, and any step in that job can read the
352 ones the job declared. A maintainer who would not hand a value to an outside patch
353 should not approve a tip whose workflow asks for it.
354
349 355 ## When rules are checked
350 356
351 357 Every rule is checked before Vole accepts a push. If a push breaks a rule, none of