ScadaBridge:Cluster:RemotingTls (ClusterRemotingTlsOptions) renders
akka.remote.dot-netty.tcp enable-ssl + ssl { certificate, mutual auth,
hostname validation } only when Enabled. Chain validation is always on
(no suppress-validation switch). Certificate is a .pfx path + password
(${secret:} reference) or an OS-store thumbprint.
ClusterOptionsValidator, TLS on only: exactly one certificate source, a
legal store location, and akka.ssl.tcp:// on every seed - Akka.Remote
advertises akka.ssl.tcp addresses once SSL is on, so an akka.tcp seed is
never answered and the join retries forever with no startup error.
ClusterBootstrapGuard.SeedPattern accepted only one scheme segment, so
akka.ssl.tcp seeds parsed as nothing and the guard would silently never
engage on a TLS pair; it now accepts any number.
Default HOCON is byte-identical: 12 rendered documents (3 downing
strategies x guard on/off x Central/Site) captured before the change and
diffed after, all identical; a permanent test pins that a disabled block
with every field set renders the default document. A real ActorSystem
booted on the emitted TLS document comes up as akka.ssl.tcp (mutation
check: forcing enable-ssl=false turns it red).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT67AEHd2Acv1YPwGfXEoV
Adds LeaderAutoDowningProvider (Host/Actors), a line-for-line port of Akka.NET
1.5.62 AutoDowning/AutoDown/AutoDownBase read from the decompiled assembly: the
leader among the reachable members downs a peer unreachable for StableAfter; a
non-leader records it as pending and downs it on becoming leader; reachable-again
or removed members are forgotten; Down/Exiting members are skipped. Its window is
carried under scadabridge.cluster.leader-auto-down.unreachable-after, so no
deprecated auto-down-unreachable-after key is emitted and Akka's boot-time
"keep-majority will be used instead" warning goes away. DownRemovalMargin reads
akka.cluster.down-removal-margin exactly as AutoDowning does (default off).
New SplitBrainResolverStrategy value "leader-auto-down", wired through BuildHocon
and ClusterOptionsValidator. The default stays "auto-down"; auto-down and
keep-oldest HOCON is byte-identical to before. Placed in Host, not
ClusterInfrastructure, per the Code Placement rule (ClusterInfrastructure stays
Akka-free).
Tests: HOCON + validator units; LeaderAutoDownTests ports Akka's AutoDownSpec
cases (leader-only, pending-on-leader-change, losing leadership, reachable again,
removed, Down/Exiting skipped, single Down per member); LeaderAutoDownFailoverTests
clones SbrFailoverTests' oldest-crash and younger-crash cases on a real two-node
cluster plus a test that Akka actually loaded the provider and its downing actor.
Mutation-checked: a provider that never calls Cluster.Down fails both failover
tests; never-downs, leader-check-dropped, reachable-ignored and pending-not-flushed
mutations each fail the unit tests.
Remaining gate before switching the default: the docker failover drill
(DRILL_MODE=active and standby mode) on leader-auto-down.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT67AEHd2Acv1YPwGfXEoV
Comment/XML-doc changes only:
- add summaries to ~10k test methods, fixtures, fakes and helpers
(+ <param> on theories, <returns> on async Task methods,
<inheritdoc/> on interface implementations the checker can resolve)
- strip ~2.6k project-tracking references (WP*, P*-*, row-NN, Task N,
#NN, Component-0NN) from comments, keeping the explanatory text;
reword false positives in comments only
- real docs on fakes implementing BCL/library interfaces
(IDisposable, ILogger, IOptionsMonitor, IAsyncLifetime)
- reword the last 5 src/ false positives (CWE-1236, failures-1,
year-0001, M365)
Only non-comment edits: four one-line nested classes split across lines
so members can carry docs. Build 0 errors / 0 warnings.
Port OtOpcUa's bootstrap guard (lmxopcua d1dac87f) to ScadaBridge's
BuildHocon bootstrap. Both pair nodes are self-first seeds, so a true
simultaneous cold start (shared site power event) races FirstSeedNodeProcess
on both and forms two 1-node clusters that never merge.
Opt-in dark switch ScadaBridge:Cluster:BootstrapGuard:Enabled (default off,
guard-off behavior byte-identical). When on: BuildHocon emits an empty seed
list so Akka does not auto-join, and ClusterBootstrapCoordinator (IHostedService,
registered in both the Central and Site composition roots) picks the join order
from ClusterBootstrapGuard's pure decision core — the lower canonical host:port
is the founder (self-first, forms immediately); the higher node TCP-probes the
founder up to PartnerProbeSeconds and joins peer-first if reachable, else
self-first (cold-start-alone preserved). Decides before a single JoinSeedNodes,
never re-forms mid-handshake.
Review notes carried over: case-insensitive founder tie-break; fail-fast
validation of probe timings when enabled; higher-node-cold-start-alone covered
by a real-ActorSystem test. 21 unit + 5 real-cluster tests (incl. the headline
both-cold-start-together-form-one-cluster).
Two-node keep-oldest could NEVER survive a crash of the oldest/active node:
Akka.NET 1.5.62 KeepOldest.OldestDecision only lets down-if-alone rescue a
side with >= 2 members, so the 1-vs-1 survivor takes DownReachable and downs
ITSELF — proven live on the rig ('SBR took decision ... including myself')
before this change. static-quorum(1) is worse (IsTooManyMembers -> DownAll);
keep-majority just re-keys the fatal crash to the lowest address.
SplitBrainResolverStrategy gains 'auto-down' (new default): BuildHocon emits
Akka's AutoDowning provider with auto-down-unreachable-after = StableAfter.
The leader among the REACHABLE members downs the unreachable peer, so the
survivor takes over singletons and /health/active in ~25s regardless of which
node died. Accepted trade (explicit owner decision): a real network partition
runs dual-active until an operator restarts one side. keep-oldest remains
supported; DownIfAlone validation is now scoped to it.
Live drill on the rebuilt rig: active-crash TAKEOVER in 28s (victim still
down; all 7 singletons Younger->Oldest), standby-crash removal 27s with 0
routing blips; victims rejoin as standby in 2s. New real-cluster tests pin
both directions (SbrFailoverTests.AutoDown_*); TwoNodeClusterFixture gains a
strategy knob. All 16 appsettings flipped (src, docker, docker-env2, and the
gitignored wonder-app-vd03 overlay on disk — owner must sync to the host).
Docs: decision record docs/plans/2026-07-21-auto-down-availability-decision.md,
Component-ClusterInfrastructure downing section rewritten, drill + README
reworked (active mode now asserts takeover), deferred-work SBR row resolved.
Validator lowers the seed-count floor to 1 when AllowSingleNodeCluster is set,
otherwise still requires 2 and points operators at the flag. The plan's
deploy/wonder-app-vd03/appsettings.Central.json edit is skipped: that production
deploy artifact is not tracked in this repo (only its deployment record doc is).
Joseph Doherty