Verified live against clickhouse/clickhouse-server:24.8: a freshly
created tenant user was NOT default-denied from system.* the way the
original design assumed -- system.tables listed every tenant's
database/table names to any authenticated user regardless of grants.
Fixed with an explicit REVOKE SELECT ON system.* FROM <user> after the
existing GRANT SELECT, INSERT.
Verifying this live also surfaced a real ClickHouse behavioral split
the design didn't anticipate: system.query_log is genuinely access-
checked (the REVOKE makes it hard-deny, ACCESS_DENIED), but
system.tables is a filtered catalog view that ClickHouse 24.8 never
denies outright -- it just returns zero rows for a properly-revoked
user. Both outcomes close the actual leak. Corrected
TestProvisionedUserCannotReadSystemTables to assert what each table
actually does (hard error for query_log, verified-empty-and-no-foreign-
database-names for tables) instead of demanding a hard error from both.
ingest tags every record with a tenant_id Kafka header (built previously),
but nothing consumed it to actually route the write. This closes that for
ClickHouse: enterprise/cmd/enterprise-ingest (a second binary, mirroring
enterprise-api) reuses ingest/consumer's own flush loop unchanged, with
enterprise/internal/chwriter.Registry -- a per-tenant clickhousewriter.Writer
registry -- swapped in as the writer. A batch pulled from the single shared
Redpanda topic can mix records from many tenants, so WriteBatch groups by
TenantID and dispatches each group to its own tenant's connection, fail-
closed on an empty or unrecognized tenant_id.
ingest/consumer and ingest/clickhousewriter move out of internal/ (same
reason api/internal/* moved earlier this phase: enterprise/ can't import
anything under another module's internal/). Their New() constructors now
take small local Config structs instead of ingest/internal/config types,
so enterprise/ doesn't need that import either.
Building this surfaced a real bug: tenantprovision.ProvisionClickHouse
only granted SELECT on a tenant's ClickHouse user, correct for chrunner's
read-only use but not enough for chwriter reusing the same credential to
write -- every real per-tenant write would have failed closed with a
permission error. Fixed by widening the grant to SELECT, INSERT; no
cross-tenant boundary is crossed by also allowing INSERT within a
tenant's own database.
Helm gates enterprise-ingest's Deployment on the same
ingest.requireTenantCredential flag that already gates tag validation --
write-routing is meaningless without tagging already being required, so
they're one decision, not two. docker-compose.yml's version is a
disclosed, weaker approximation: it can't achieve Helm's genuine
-mode=server/-mode=consumer split, so with the enterprise profile active
both ingest and enterprise-ingest independently consume every message
via different consumer groups -- harmless duplication for local
verification only.
Not built: Tantivy's independent Redpanda consumer (search/src/consumer.rs)
still doesn't read the tenant_id header at all -- every record still lands
in the one shared index regardless of tenant. Not run: the live-ClickHouse-
gated tests (chwriter's cross-tenant routing test, tenantprovision's INSERT
regression test) -- no Docker/database access in this environment; they're
correct Go that has never executed, disclosed as such in docs/security/
threat-model.md and docs/phase-4-runbook.md §14.
Closes the threat model's headline finding for the SQL query path:
enterprise/internal/tenantprovision does real CREATE DATABASE/USER/GRANT
against ClickHouse, and enterprise/internal/chrunner is a per-tenant
connection registry implementing api's SQLRunner interface, resolving
the tenant from the authenticated request identity -- never a
caller-suppliable parameter. Both are wired into a new binary,
enterprise/cmd/enterprise-api, alongside the unchanged single-tenant
api/cmd/api, since AGPL core can never import enterprise/ and Go's own
internal/ package visibility rules meant enterprise/ couldn't implement
core's SQLRunner interface without importing the package that defines
it. That required moving api/internal/{authz,queryapi,dashboards,
querylang/executor,searchclient,httpserver} out of internal/ -- the
minimal set enterprise-api needs to import; querylang's compiler
internals (planner/lexer/parser/ast/ir) and api's own config stay
internal, since nothing outside api needs them directly.
Also finally wires enterprise/internal/audit into queryapi.AuditLogger
(nil since Phase 4 task 4) via a new adapter, and adds live-ClickHouse
integration tests for two of the four adversarial probes named in
docs/phase-4-isolation-design.md's verification plan.
Corrected several overclaims in the docs while writing this up: an
earlier claim that rbacstore's CRUD was "verified against a live
Postgres" was never actually true in this environment (only
internal/audit was, earlier in this phase, before Docker access was
lost) -- threat-model.md, phase-4-runbook.md, CLAUDE.md, and
enterprise/README.md all now distinguish "a real integration test
exists" from "this was confirmed against a live database."
Still not built: Tantivy/free-text tenant isolation
(enterprise/internal/searchclient), and any deployment-topology
mechanism that actually routes traffic to enterprise-api instead of
plain api -- both binaries exist side by side today with nothing
enforcing or flagging which one a deployment runs.
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