fix(#654): bounded fast retry while the known-cluster gate is unpublished

CentralCommunicationActor: while the PSK provider is unresolved or the first
ClusterNode load failed, re-arm RefreshContacts every 2 s (max 15) until the
first publish; Information log on first publish; 'NEVER be published' Error
now only after the retry budget is exhausted. Corrected false comments.
Tests: late provider (Grpc+Dps), failed first load, retries stop, bounded budget;
ControlPlaneStarterOrderTests back to the default 60 s refresh.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
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Joseph Doherty
2026-10-08 23:32:38 -04:00
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@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ The checked-in `appsettings*.json` files are deliberately thin: they carry only
| Key | Type | Default | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| `Mode` | string | `Dps` | `Dps` = DistributedPubSub, pair-local only — cannot cross an application-`Cluster` boundary. `Grpc` = the `mesh_transport.v1` gRPC contract (below), required on any node carrying a `cluster-{ClusterId}` role. Any other value **refuses to start**, including the retired `ClusterClient` value — a node still configured for it is refused at boot rather than silently demoted to `Dps`, which on a split-topology node would deliver nothing at all. |
| `ContactRefreshSeconds` | int | `60` | Central-side only: how often central rebuilds its node dispatch set — the gRPC dial targets and the known-cluster PSK gate — from the `ClusterNode` rows. Runs in every mode; under `Dps` it still keeps the inbound-ack endpoint's known-cluster gate current even though nothing dials out. |
| `ContactRefreshSeconds` | int | `60` | Central-side only: how often central rebuilds its node dispatch set — the gRPC dial targets and the known-cluster PSK gate — from the `ClusterNode` rows. Runs in every mode; under `Dps` it still keeps the inbound-ack endpoint's known-cluster gate current even though nothing dials out. While the known-cluster gate is still unpublished (PSK provider not yet resolvable at boot, or the first `ClusterNode` load failed) central also retries a refresh every 2 s, at most 15 times, until the first publish (#654); steady state adds no traffic. |
**`Grpc` mode: central dials each node, a node posts its ack to central.** `CentralCommunicationActor` fans one `NodeCommandService.Execute` call per node — the target set is every enabled, non-maintenance `ClusterNode` row that carries a `GrpcPort` (dialled at `Host`+`GrpcPort`), rebuilt every `ContactRefreshSeconds`. There is no receptionist and no single fleet-wide (or per-cluster) client object: it is a plain per-node dial. A node posts its `ApplyAck` with `GrpcApplyAckSender`, which walks `CentralGrpcEndpoints` in order and stops at the first success — an availability list, not a fan-out list, so central normally sees one ack per node per dispatch (the walk as a whole is at-least-once on a slow-then-retried endpoint; `ConfigPublishCoordinator.HandleAck` absorbs a duplicate idempotently). Both directions are **fire-and-forget, with no retry**: a failed dispatch is logged (naming the node and the gRPC status) and dropped in the dispatch second — the deploy path's 2-minute apply deadline and a node's boot-time replay (`DriverHostActor.Bootstrap()` re-applying an orphan `Applying` row) are the only recovery mechanisms, exactly as they were under `ClusterClient`.