Add the deployment path: agent systemd unit and container image

The README referenced `deploy/install-agent.sh` and a `Containerfile` that
did not exist, so a fresh clone had no way to actually run this anywhere.

* agent: `--token-file` (and AGENT_TOKEN_FILE). The token guards hostname,
  mounts, disk and GPU models and process names, and argv is world-readable
  through `ps`, so a file has to win over the flag. Missing or empty token
  files are fatal — falling back to "no token" would expose the host.
* deploy/install-agent.sh: creates a system user, generates the token once
  (re-runs reuse it, --rotate-token for a new one), stores it 0600
  root-owned, and runs the agent under ProtectSystem=strict with no
  capabilities; --status and --uninstall included.
* Containerfile: two-stage, uv.lock resolved in the builder and slim Python
  in the runtime. Verified with podman — the image serves /api/health as an
  unprivileged user and writes its history under /var/lib/dashboards.
  UV_PROJECT_ENVIRONMENT and --no-editable are what make the venv survive
  being copied into the runtime stage.
* .containerignore keeps .git, .venv, data/ and .env out of the build
  context.

258 tests, 94% coverage; ruff and pyright clean.

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Install agent/host_agent.py as a systemd service on a monitored host.
#
# sudo ./deploy/install-agent.sh # loopback only (ssh tunnel in)
# sudo ./deploy/install-agent.sh --bind 10.0.0.5 # serve the LAN, token required
# sudo ./deploy/install-agent.sh --status
# sudo ./deploy/install-agent.sh --uninstall
#
# The token is stored in a root-owned 0600 file and passed to the agent as --token-file,
# never on the command line: argv is world-readable through `ps`, and this token guards
# hostname, mounts, disk models, GPU model and process names. Re-running the installer
# reuses the existing token — use --rotate-token when the old one leaked.
#
# The agent is read-only by construction (it answers GET and writes nothing), runs as its
# own system user, and gets the usual systemd lockdown. It still needs to read /proc, /sys
# and statvfs(), which the hardening below leaves alone.
set -euo pipefail
SERVICE="dashboards-agent"
AGENT_USER="dashboards-agent"
AGENT_DIR="/usr/local/lib/dashboards-agent"
AGENT_TARGET="$AGENT_DIR/host_agent.py"
TOKEN_FILE="/etc/dashboards-agent.token"
UNIT="/etc/systemd/system/$SERVICE.service"
SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
AGENT_SOURCE="$SCRIPT_DIR/../agent/host_agent.py"
BIND="127.0.0.1"
PORT="9120"
TOKEN="${AGENT_TOKEN:-}"
ROTATE=0
MODE="install"
usage() {
# the header comment *is* the help text, so it cannot drift from the flags
awk 'NR > 1 { if (/^#/) { sub(/^# ?/, ""); print } else { exit } }' "$0"
exit "${1:-0}"
}
while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
case "$1" in
--bind) BIND="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--port) PORT="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--token) TOKEN="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--rotate-token) ROTATE=1; shift ;;
--status) MODE="status"; shift ;;
--uninstall) MODE="uninstall"; shift ;;
-h|--help) usage 0 ;;
*) echo "unknown argument: $1" >&2; usage 2 ;;
esac
done
need_root() {
if [ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]; then
echo "run as root: sudo $0 $*" >&2
exit 1
fi
}
status() {
systemctl status "$SERVICE" --no-pager 2>&1 || true
echo
if command -v curl >/dev/null 2>&1; then
printf 'health: '
curl -s --max-time 4 "http://$BIND:$PORT/health" || echo "(no answer)"
echo
fi
}
uninstall() {
need_root "$0 --uninstall"
systemctl disable --now "$SERVICE" 2>/dev/null || true
rm -f "$UNIT" "$TOKEN_FILE" "$AGENT_TARGET"
rmdir "$AGENT_DIR" 2>/dev/null || true
systemctl daemon-reload
echo "removed $SERVICE (the $AGENT_USER user was left in place; remove it with userdel)"
}
new_token() {
# urlsafe and no padding: the token goes into HOST_TARGETS as URL userinfo
# (`name=http://TOKEN@host:9120`), where '+' and '=' are annoying to quote.
python3 -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(32).rstrip("="))'
}
install() {
need_root "$0 --bind $BIND --port $PORT"
[ -f "$AGENT_SOURCE" ] || { echo "no agent next to this script: $AGENT_SOURCE" >&2; exit 1; }
if ! command -v python3 >/dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "python3 is required on the monitored host (3.10 or newer)" >&2
exit 1
fi
# The agent needs no privileges, so give it a user with nothing to lose.
if ! id "$AGENT_USER" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
useradd --system --home-dir / --shell /usr/sbin/nologin "$AGENT_USER"
fi
install -d -m 0755 "$AGENT_DIR"
install -m 0755 "$AGENT_SOURCE" "$AGENT_TARGET"
if [ -f "$TOKEN_FILE" ] && [ "$ROTATE" -eq 0 ] && [ -z "$TOKEN" ]; then
TOKEN="$(cat "$TOKEN_FILE")"
echo "reusing the existing token in $TOKEN_FILE (--rotate-token for a new one)"
elif [ -z "$TOKEN" ]; then
TOKEN="$(new_token)"
fi
# 0600 root:root — the service runs as $AGENT_USER, and systemd (PID 1, root) reads the
# file for it, so the agent process never needs read permission on it itself.
(umask 0177; printf '%s\n' "$TOKEN" > "$TOKEN_FILE")
chmod 0600 "$TOKEN_FILE"
chown root:root "$TOKEN_FILE"
cat > "$UNIT" <<UNIT_FILE
[Unit]
Description=Homelab host agent (read-only system metrics)
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=$AGENT_USER
ExecStart=/usr/bin/env python3 $AGENT_TARGET --host $BIND --port $PORT --token-file $TOKEN_FILE
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
Environment=PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
SyslogIdentifier=$SERVICE
# The agent reads /proc, /sys and statvfs() and writes nothing, so everything writable can
# be taken away. PrivateDevices keeps /dev closed; the snapshot never needs it.
NoNewPrivileges=true
PrivateTmp=true
PrivateDevices=true
ProtectSystem=strict
ProtectHome=read-only
ProtectKernelTunables=true
ProtectKernelModules=true
ProtectControlGroups=true
RestrictSUIDSGID=true
RestrictNamespaces=true
RestrictRealtime=true
LockPersonality=true
MemoryDenyWriteExecute=true
CapabilityBoundingSet=
SystemCallFilter=@system-service
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
UNIT_FILE
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable --now "$SERVICE"
sleep 1
if systemctl is-active --quiet "$SERVICE"; then
echo " $SERVICE is running on $BIND:$PORT"
else
echo " $SERVICE failed to start — last lines:" >&2
journalctl -u "$SERVICE" -n 20 --no-pager >&2
exit 1
fi
cat <<NEXT
Point the dashboard at it (the token is the URL userinfo, so it never needs a variable of
its own, and the API strips it before anything reaches a browser):
HOST_TARGETS="hostname=http://$TOKEN@$BIND:$PORT"
Paste the token now if this is the first install — it is not printed again without
--rotate-token, and it is only ever readable by root on this box:
$TOKEN
NEXT
}
case "$MODE" in
install) install ;;
status) status ;;
uninstall) uninstall ;;
esac