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firezone/rust/gateway
Thomas Eizinger 19f51568c2 chore(rust): don't pass errors as values for debug logs (#7318)
Our logging library `tracing` supports structured logging. Structured
logging means we can include values within a `tracing::Event` without
having to immediately format it as a string. Processing these values -
such as errors - as their original type allows the various `tracing`
layers to capture and represent them as they see fit.

One of these layers is responsible for sending ERROR and WARN events to
Sentry, as part of which `std::error::Error` values get automatically
captured as so-called "sentry exceptions".

Unfortunately, there is a caveat: If an `std::error::Error` value is
included in an event that does not get mapped to an exception, the
`error` field is completely lost. See
https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-rust/issues/702 for details.

To work around this, we introduce a `err_with_sources` adapter that an
error and all its sources together into a string. For all
`tracing::debug!` statements, we then use this to report these errors.

It is really unfortunate that we have to do this and cannot use the same
mechanism, regardless of the log level. However, until this is fixed
upstream, this will do and gives us better information in the log
submitted to Sentry.
2024-11-12 04:00:02 +00:00
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gateway

This crate houses the Firezone gateway.

Building

You can build the gateway using: cargo build --release --bin firezone-gateway

You should then find a binary in target/release/firezone-gateway.

Running

The Firezone Gateway supports Linux only. To run the Gateway binary on your Linux host:

  1. Generate a new Gateway token from the "Gateways" section of the admin portal and save it in your secrets manager.
  2. Ensure the FIREZONE_TOKEN=<gateway_token> environment variable is set securely in your Gateway's shell environment. The Gateway requires this variable at startup.
  3. Set FIREZONE_ID to a unique string to identify this gateway in the portal, e.g. export FIREZONE_ID=$(uuidgen). The Gateway requires this variable at startup.
  4. Now, you can start the Gateway with:
firezone-gateway

If you're running as a non-root user, you'll need the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to open /dev/net/tun. You can add this to the gateway binary with:

sudo setcap 'cap_net_admin+eip' /path/to/firezone-gateway

Ports

The gateway requires no open ports. Connections automatically traverse NAT with STUN/TURN via the relay.