Which ought to replace etcd. This patch only adds the binary and adjusts
Dockerfile to include it; subsequent ones will add deploy of helm chart and the
actual replacement.
It is a simple and fast pub-sub message bus. In this patch only safekeeper
message is supported, but others can be easily added.
Compilation now requires protoc to be installed. Installing protobuf-compiler
package is fine for Debian/Ubuntu.
ref
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/pull/2733https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/2394
This API is rather pointless, as sane choice anyway requires knowledge of peers
status and leaders lifetime in any case can intersect, which is fine for us --
so manual elections are straightforward. Here, we deterministically choose among
the reasonably caught up safekeepers, shifting by timeline id to spread the
load.
A step towards custom broker https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/2394
