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CI: Raft consensus testing under failure conditions #84

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@renecannao

Summary

Orchestrator supports Raft-based HA deployments with multiple nodes forming a consensus cluster. The Raft code (go/raft/) is significant but has zero CI coverage for failure scenarios like leader election, leader failure, and quorum loss.

Proposal

  • Set up a 3-node orchestrator Raft cluster in Docker
  • Test leader election on startup
  • Test leader failure and re-election
  • Test that topology operations are only served by the leader
  • Test that followers redirect to the leader

Acceptance Criteria

  • 3-node Raft cluster starts and elects a leader
  • Killing the leader triggers re-election within timeout
  • API requests to followers return redirect to leader
  • Topology operations succeed on new leader after failover
  • Test integrated into CI workflow

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