feat(deploy): halkyon.li's forward through ramiel and its host at home (ADR 0039)

ramiel's HAProxy passes halkyon.li's TLS connections, unopened, through a
WireGuard tunnel to the instance at home, with the visitor's address in a
PROXY header, and everything else to ramiel's own Caddy, moved to the
loopback. Each end's nftables table lets the tunnel carry HAProxy's 443 and
the SSH jump's 22 alone, and nothing from home to ramiel.

The host at home: sshd with keys alone, the root disk unlocked over SSH at
boot (dropbear-initramfs, D20), Docker's and containerd's data bind-mounted
from the HDD, and home's end of the tunnel before Docker. An instance behind
the forward (compose.forwarded.yaml) publishes 443 on the tunnel's address
alone, trusts the PROXY header from ramiel alone, and gets its certificates
through TLS-ALPN, without HTTP/3.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Tizian 「ティツィアーン」 <raisondetredev@pm.me>
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# ramiel's forward for halkyon.li
ramiel, the halkyon.app server, publishes halkyon.li, which runs at home (ADR 0039).
HAProxy takes ramiel's 443, reads the name each TLS connection asks for, and passes
halkyon.li's, unopened, through a WireGuard tunnel to the instance at home. Every other
name goes to ramiel's own Caddy, which serves `code.halkyon.app`, `halkyon.app` and
`learn.halkyon.app` as before, now on `127.0.0.1:8443`. Port 80 stays Caddy's.
| File | On ramiel | What for |
|---|---|---|
| `haproxy.cfg` | `/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg` | the front on 443 (D3, D10) |
| `Caddyfile.halkyon-li` | merged into `/etc/caddy/Caddyfile` | Caddy on 8443 with the PROXY header, halkyon.li's HTTP to HTTPS (D11) |
| `wg-halkyon.conf` | `/etc/wireguard/wg-halkyon.conf` | ramiel's end of the tunnel (D8) |
| `wg-halkyon.nft` | `/etc/wireguard/wg-halkyon.nft` | what the tunnel may carry (D9, D17) |
`test/deploy/halkyon_li_forward_test.dart` holds these files to ADR 0039's rules.
## Steps
All as root on ramiel (`sudo`), but step 1 on melchior. The home end is set up
alongside (`../host/README.md`): each side needs the other's public key.
1. **The files**, from a checkout on melchior, into the admin's home on ramiel:
```sh
scp deploy/forward/haproxy.cfg deploy/forward/Caddyfile.halkyon-li \
deploy/forward/wg-halkyon.conf deploy/forward/wg-halkyon.nft ramiel:
```
2. **The packages**:
```sh
sudo apt install wireguard-tools haproxy nftables
```
Ubuntu's HAProxy starts with a configuration that listens nowhere, so nothing changes
yet.
3. **ramiel's key** for the tunnel, made on ramiel and never leaving it but into Proton
Pass (vault *Infra*, an item *ramiel wg-halkyon*: a new server needs it again):
```sh
sudo install -d -m 700 /etc/wireguard
sudo sh -c 'umask 077; wg genkey > /etc/wireguard/wg-halkyon.key'
sudo cat /etc/wireguard/wg-halkyon.key # into Proton Pass
sudo wg pubkey < /etc/wireguard/wg-halkyon.key # ramiel's public key: home's config
```
4. **The tunnel's files**, with home's public key (from `../host/README.md`, step 4) in
place of `<home's public key>`:
```sh
sudo install -m 600 -o root -g root ~/wg-halkyon.conf ~/wg-halkyon.nft /etc/wireguard/
sudoedit /etc/wireguard/wg-halkyon.conf
sudo nft -c -f /etc/wireguard/wg-halkyon.nft # checks the rules, loads nothing
```
5. **WireGuard's port**, opened in ufw:
```sh
sudo ufw allow 51820/udp comment 'WireGuard: halkyon.li at home'
```
6. **The tunnel**, up now and at every boot:
```sh
sudo systemctl enable --now wg-quick@wg-halkyon
sudo wg show wg-halkyon # a handshake once home is up too
sudo nft list table inet halkyon_tunnel
```
7. **Caddy moved behind HAProxy.** Keep the Caddyfile as it is, then put
`Caddyfile.halkyon-li`'s global options at the very top of `/etc/caddy/Caddyfile`
(before `code.halkyon.app {`) and its site at the end, and check it:
```sh
sudo cp /etc/caddy/Caddyfile /etc/caddy/Caddyfile.before-haproxy
sudoedit /etc/caddy/Caddyfile
sudo caddy validate --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile --adapter caddyfile
sudo install -m 644 ~/haproxy.cfg /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
sudo haproxy -c -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
```
8. **The switch**, the forge away for the seconds between the two commands: Caddy lets go
of 443, HAProxy takes it.
```sh
sudo systemctl reload caddy && sudo systemctl restart haproxy
sudo ss -tlnp | grep -E ':(443|8443) ' # haproxy on 443, caddy on 8443
curl -sI https://code.halkyon.app | head -1 # from melchior: HTTP/2 200
```
If anything fails, step 8 is undone by `sudo systemctl stop haproxy`, the old
Caddyfile copied back and `sudo systemctl reload caddy`.
9. **Checks** once home's Caddy runs (`../host/README.md`):
```sh
curl -sI https://learn.halkyon.li | head -1 # from anywhere: an answer from home
curl -sI http://learn.halkyon.li | head -3 # 308 to https://, from ramiel
```
## Taking it away
```sh
sudo systemctl disable --now wg-quick@wg-halkyon haproxy
sudo ufw delete allow 51820/udp
sudo cp /etc/caddy/Caddyfile.before-haproxy /etc/caddy/Caddyfile
sudo systemctl reload caddy
```
Caddy then holds 443 and serves HTTP/3 again, as before.
## What changes for the forge
- Caddy serves no HTTP/3 any more (`protocols h1 h2`). Browsers and git use HTTP/2,
which they fall back to on their own.
- Its log keeps visitors' addresses, from HAProxy's PROXY header, which Caddy trusts from
the loopback alone.
- HAProxy logs nothing.