feat(localdb): boot from the pair-local artifact cache when central SQL is unreachable

Hooks the Bootstrap catch that previously went straight to Stale. On a cache hit the
node serves its last-known-good configuration through the outage instead of coming
up with an empty address space; on a miss, behaviour is byte-for-byte what it was.

The read is unkeyed because ClusterId is only derivable from an artifact you already
hold or from the unreachable central DB (recon D-1). Newest pointer wins, which is
correct in every real topology - a node belongs to one cluster and its peer
replicates that same row.

Splits PushDesiredSubscriptionsFromArtifact out of PushDesiredSubscriptions: the
cache path runs precisely when the ConfigDb read cannot succeed, so re-reading the
artifact there would fail by definition.

RunningFromCache is surfaced on NodeDiagnosticsSnapshot (optional param, existing
call sites unaffected). A node running from cache looks entirely healthy from
outside - full address space, live values - but its config is frozen and no deploy
can reach it. It clears only on a real apply from central.
This commit is contained in:
Joseph Doherty
2026-07-20 11:12:19 -04:00
parent 1becf59168
commit a27eff3298
3 changed files with 382 additions and 3 deletions
@@ -14,8 +14,16 @@ public sealed record DriverInstanceDiagnostics(
/// Per-node diagnostics returned by <c>IFleetDiagnosticsClient</c>. Populated by the node's
/// local <c>DriverHostActor</c> via a request/response over Akka.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="RunningFromCache">
/// True when the node booted its configuration from the node-local artifact cache because the
/// central ConfigDb was unreachable. Such a node looks entirely healthy — full address space,
/// live values — but its configuration is frozen and no deployment can reach it, so the state
/// needs to be explicitly visible rather than inferred. Defaults to false, which is also what
/// every node that booted normally reports.
/// </param>
public sealed record NodeDiagnosticsSnapshot(
NodeId NodeId,
RevisionHash? CurrentRevision,
IReadOnlyList<DriverInstanceDiagnostics> Drivers,
DateTime AsOfUtc);
DateTime AsOfUtc,
bool RunningFromCache = false);
@@ -71,6 +71,18 @@ public sealed class DriverHostActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
/// </summary>
private readonly IDeploymentArtifactCache? _deploymentArtifactCache;
/// <summary>
/// True once this node has booted a cached artifact because central SQL was unreachable.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Surfaced on <see cref="NodeDiagnosticsSnapshot"/> because a node running from cache looks
/// completely healthy from the outside — it serves a full address space with live values.
/// The difference is that its configuration is frozen at whatever the cache held, and no
/// deployment can reach it. Without an explicit signal that is invisible until someone
/// wonders why a deploy "succeeded" everywhere but did not take effect here.
/// </remarks>
private bool _isRunningFromCache;
private readonly IDbContextFactory<OtOpcUaConfigDbContext> _dbFactory;
private readonly CommonsNodeId _localNode;
private readonly IActorRef? _coordinatorOverride;
@@ -587,10 +599,118 @@ public sealed class DriverHostActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
catch (Exception ex)
{
_log.Warning(ex, "DriverHost {Node}: ConfigDb unreachable on bootstrap; entering Stale", _localNode);
Become(Stale);
// Central is unreachable, so try the node-local cache before giving up. On a hit this
// node serves its last-known-good configuration through the outage instead of coming up
// with an empty address space. On a miss, behaviour is exactly what it always was.
if (!TryBootFromCache())
Become(Stale);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Last-resort boot path: apply the artifact cached by a previous successful deploy (or
/// replicated from this node's pair peer) when central SQL cannot be reached.
/// </summary>
/// <returns>
/// <see langword="true"/> when a cached artifact was applied and the actor is now Steady;
/// <see langword="false"/> when the caller should fall through to <c>Stale</c>.
/// </returns>
/// <remarks>
/// <para>
/// <b>The read is unkeyed.</b> The cache is keyed by ClusterId so a pair shares one
/// entry, but ClusterId is only derivable from an artifact you already hold or from the
/// central DB — and at this seam we have neither. So the newest pointer row wins, which
/// is correct in every real topology because a node belongs to one cluster and its peer
/// replicates that same cluster's row. A node re-homed between clusters is the only
/// ambiguous case, and the cache logs a warning naming both.
/// </para>
/// <para>
/// <b>This does not make the node current.</b> <c>_currentRevision</c> is set from the
/// cached artifact, so a subsequent dispatch of that same revision correctly no-ops,
/// while any NEW revision still requires central — the cache holds the past, not the
/// future. Dispatch handling is unchanged.
/// </para>
/// <para>
/// Never throws: a fault here must degrade to Stale, which is exactly where the node
/// would have been without a cache at all.
/// </para>
/// </remarks>
private bool TryBootFromCache()
{
if (_deploymentArtifactCache is null)
return false;
try
{
var cached = _deploymentArtifactCache.GetCurrentUnkeyedAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult();
if (cached is null)
{
_log.Info(
"DriverHost {Node}: no cached deployment available; entering Stale with no configuration.",
_localNode);
return false;
}
var deploymentId = DeploymentId.Parse(cached.DeploymentId);
var revision = RevisionHash.Parse(cached.RevisionHash);
// Steady, not Stale: this node is serving a real configuration. The retry-db timer that
// Stale would have started does not run here, so recovery rides on the next dispatch —
// matching how a normally-booted node behaves.
_currentRevision = revision;
Become(Steady);
ApplyCachedArtifact(deploymentId, cached.Artifact);
_isRunningFromCache = true;
_log.Warning(
"DriverHost {Node}: RUNNING FROM CACHE — central ConfigDb is unreachable, so this node " +
"booted deployment {Id} (rev {Rev}) cached at {CachedAtUtc:o} from its local database. " +
"Configuration changes cannot be applied until the ConfigDb is reachable again.",
_localNode, deploymentId, revision, cached.AppliedAtUtc);
return true;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
_log.Error(ex,
"DriverHost {Node}: failed to boot from the local deployment cache; falling back to Stale.",
_localNode);
return false;
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Applies an artifact already in hand — no ConfigDb read, no ACK.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Mirrors <see cref="RestoreApplied"/>, but sources the artifact from the cache rather than
/// re-reading it from a database that is by definition unreachable here. It also skips
/// <c>UpsertNodeDeploymentState</c> and <c>SendAck</c> for the same reason: both write to or
/// depend on central.
/// </remarks>
private void ApplyCachedArtifact(DeploymentId deploymentId, byte[] blob)
{
var correlation = CorrelationId.NewId();
var specs = DeploymentArtifact.ParseDriverInstances(blob, _localNode.Value);
var snapshots = _children.ToDictionary(
kv => kv.Key,
kv => new DriverChildSnapshot(kv.Value.DriverType, kv.Value.LastConfigJson, kv.Value.ResilienceConfig),
StringComparer.Ordinal);
var plan = DriverSpawnPlanner.Compute(snapshots, specs);
foreach (var id in plan.ToStop) StopChild(id);
foreach (var spec in plan.ToApplyDelta) ApplyChildDelta(spec);
foreach (var spec in plan.ToSpawn) SpawnChild(spec);
_opcUaPublishActor?.Tell(
new ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.OpcUa.OpcUaPublishActor.RebuildAddressSpace(correlation, deploymentId));
PushDesiredSubscriptionsFromArtifact(deploymentId, blob);
}
private void Steady()
{
Receive<DispatchDeployment>(HandleDispatchFromSteady);
@@ -1420,7 +1540,8 @@ public sealed class DriverHostActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
NodeId: _localNode,
CurrentRevision: _currentRevision,
Drivers: drivers,
AsOfUtc: DateTime.UtcNow);
AsOfUtc: DateTime.UtcNow,
RunningFromCache: _isRunningFromCache);
Sender.Tell(snapshot);
}
@@ -1465,6 +1586,11 @@ public sealed class DriverHostActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
// the just-rebuilt address space instead of staying BadWaitingForInitialData.
PushDesiredSubscriptions(deploymentId);
CacheAppliedArtifact(deploymentId, revision, appliedBlob);
// Reaching here means the artifact came from central, so the node is no longer serving a
// cache-sourced configuration. Note this only clears on a real apply: a dispatch of the
// revision already booted from cache short-circuits in HandleDispatchFromSteady without
// touching the ConfigDb, and the flag correctly stays set.
_isRunningFromCache = false;
OtOpcUaTelemetry.DeploymentApplied.Add(1, new KeyValuePair<string, object?>("outcome", "ack"));
_log.Info("DriverHost {Node}: applied deployment {Id} (rev {Rev}, children={Count})",
_localNode, deploymentId, revision, _children.Count);
@@ -1661,6 +1787,19 @@ public sealed class DriverHostActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
return;
}
PushDesiredSubscriptionsFromArtifact(deploymentId, blob);
}
/// <summary>
/// The artifact-processing half of <see cref="PushDesiredSubscriptions"/>, split out so the
/// boot-from-cache path can drive it with bytes already in hand.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Separated because the cache path runs precisely when the ConfigDb read above cannot
/// succeed — re-reading the artifact there would fail by definition.
/// </remarks>
private void PushDesiredSubscriptionsFromArtifact(DeploymentId deploymentId, byte[] blob)
{
AddressSpaceComposition composition;
try
{
@@ -0,0 +1,232 @@
using System.Text.Json;
using Akka.Actor;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
using Shouldly;
using Xunit;
using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Commons.Interfaces;
using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Commons.Messages.Fleet;
using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Commons.Types;
using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Configuration;
using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Configuration.Entities;
using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Configuration.Enums;
using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.DeploymentCache;
using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Drivers;
using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests.Harness;
namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests.Drivers;
/// <summary>
/// LocalDb Phase 1 (Task 8) — booting from the node-local artifact cache when central SQL is
/// unreachable.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// The behaviour that matters is asymmetric: the cache must rescue a node whose ConfigDb read
/// failed, and must be completely invisible otherwise. A cache consulted on the happy path would
/// be a route for stale configuration to override fresh configuration.
/// </remarks>
public sealed class DriverHostActorBootFromCacheTests : RuntimeActorTestBase
{
private static readonly NodeId TestNode = NodeId.Parse("driver-test");
private static readonly RevisionHash CachedRev = RevisionHash.Parse(new string('c', 64));
[Fact]
public void CentralUnreachableAndCacheHasArtifact_BootsFromCache()
{
var cached = new CachedDeploymentArtifact(
DeploymentId.NewId().ToString(),
CachedRev.Value,
EmptyArtifact(),
DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.AddHours(-1));
var cache = new StubArtifactCache(cached);
var actor = Sys.ActorOf(DriverHostActor.Props(
new ThrowingDbFactory(), TestNode, coordinator: null,
localRoles: new HashSet<string> { "driver" },
deploymentArtifactCache: cache));
var snapshot = AskDiagnostics(actor);
snapshot.RunningFromCache.ShouldBeTrue();
snapshot.CurrentRevision.ShouldBe(CachedRev);
// Positive control for the UnkeyedReads counter the "never consults the cache" tests rely
// on. Without this, those ShouldBe(0) assertions would pass just as happily if the counter
// were never incremented at all.
cache.UnkeyedReads.ShouldBe(1);
}
[Fact]
public void CentralUnreachableAndCacheEmpty_StaysStaleWithNoConfiguration()
{
// The pre-cache behaviour, unchanged. A cache miss must not invent a configuration.
var actor = Sys.ActorOf(DriverHostActor.Props(
new ThrowingDbFactory(), TestNode, coordinator: null,
localRoles: new HashSet<string> { "driver" },
deploymentArtifactCache: new StubArtifactCache(current: null)));
var snapshot = AskDiagnostics(actor);
snapshot.RunningFromCache.ShouldBeFalse();
snapshot.CurrentRevision.ShouldBeNull();
}
[Fact]
public void CentralUnreachableAndNoCacheConfigured_StaysStale()
{
// Admin-only graphs and older harnesses pass null; behaviour is identical to a cache miss.
var actor = Sys.ActorOf(DriverHostActor.Props(
new ThrowingDbFactory(), TestNode, coordinator: null,
localRoles: new HashSet<string> { "driver" }));
var snapshot = AskDiagnostics(actor);
snapshot.RunningFromCache.ShouldBeFalse();
snapshot.CurrentRevision.ShouldBeNull();
}
[Fact]
public void CentralReachable_NeverConsultsTheCache()
{
// THE guard against stale config winning. If the cache were read on the happy path, a node
// whose cache held an older revision could quietly serve it over the deployed one.
var cache = new StubArtifactCache(new CachedDeploymentArtifact(
DeploymentId.NewId().ToString(), CachedRev.Value, EmptyArtifact(), DateTimeOffset.UtcNow));
var actor = Sys.ActorOf(DriverHostActor.Props(
NewInMemoryDbFactory(), TestNode, coordinator: null,
localRoles: new HashSet<string> { "driver" },
deploymentArtifactCache: cache));
var snapshot = AskDiagnostics(actor);
snapshot.RunningFromCache.ShouldBeFalse();
cache.UnkeyedReads.ShouldBe(0);
}
[Fact]
public void CentralReachableWithAPriorAppliedDeployment_NeverConsultsTheCache()
{
// The RestoreApplied path — the other way a boot can succeed against central.
var db = NewInMemoryDbFactory();
var rev = RevisionHash.Parse(new string('d', 64));
var deploymentId = SeedAppliedDeployment(db, rev);
var cache = new StubArtifactCache(new CachedDeploymentArtifact(
deploymentId.ToString(), CachedRev.Value, EmptyArtifact(), DateTimeOffset.UtcNow));
var actor = Sys.ActorOf(DriverHostActor.Props(
db, TestNode, coordinator: null,
localRoles: new HashSet<string> { "driver" },
deploymentArtifactCache: cache));
var snapshot = AskDiagnostics(actor);
snapshot.RunningFromCache.ShouldBeFalse();
snapshot.CurrentRevision.ShouldBe(rev);
cache.UnkeyedReads.ShouldBe(0);
}
[Fact]
public void AThrowingCache_DegradesToStale_RatherThanFailingTheActor()
{
// A cache fault must leave the node exactly where it would have been without a cache.
var actor = Sys.ActorOf(DriverHostActor.Props(
new ThrowingDbFactory(), TestNode, coordinator: null,
localRoles: new HashSet<string> { "driver" },
deploymentArtifactCache: new ThrowingReadCache()));
var snapshot = AskDiagnostics(actor);
snapshot.RunningFromCache.ShouldBeFalse();
snapshot.CurrentRevision.ShouldBeNull();
}
private NodeDiagnosticsSnapshot AskDiagnostics(IActorRef actor)
{
var probe = CreateTestProbe();
// GetDiagnostics is serviced in Steady, Applying AND Stale, so this observes the node
// whichever way the boot resolved.
AwaitAssert(
() =>
{
actor.Tell(new GetDiagnostics(CorrelationId.NewId()), probe.Ref);
probe.ExpectMsg<NodeDiagnosticsSnapshot>(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2));
},
duration: TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));
actor.Tell(new GetDiagnostics(CorrelationId.NewId()), probe.Ref);
return probe.ExpectMsg<NodeDiagnosticsSnapshot>(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));
}
/// <summary>A syntactically valid artifact with no driver instances.</summary>
private static byte[] EmptyArtifact()
=> JsonSerializer.SerializeToUtf8Bytes(new { DriverInstances = Array.Empty<object>() });
private static DeploymentId SeedAppliedDeployment(
IDbContextFactory<OtOpcUaConfigDbContext> db, RevisionHash rev)
{
var id = DeploymentId.NewId();
using var ctx = db.CreateDbContext();
ctx.Deployments.Add(new Deployment
{
DeploymentId = id.Value,
RevisionHash = rev.Value,
Status = DeploymentStatus.Sealed,
CreatedBy = "test",
SealedAtUtc = DateTime.UtcNow,
ArtifactBlob = EmptyArtifact(),
});
ctx.NodeDeploymentStates.Add(new NodeDeploymentState
{
NodeId = TestNode.Value,
DeploymentId = id.Value,
Status = NodeDeploymentStatus.Applied,
StartedAtUtc = DateTime.UtcNow,
});
ctx.SaveChanges();
return id;
}
/// <summary>Stands in for an unreachable central SQL Server.</summary>
private sealed class ThrowingDbFactory : IDbContextFactory<OtOpcUaConfigDbContext>
{
public OtOpcUaConfigDbContext CreateDbContext()
=> throw new InvalidOperationException("ConfigDb unreachable");
}
private sealed class StubArtifactCache(CachedDeploymentArtifact? current) : IDeploymentArtifactCache
{
private int _unkeyedReads;
/// <summary>How many times the boot path consulted this cache.</summary>
public int UnkeyedReads => Volatile.Read(ref _unkeyedReads);
public Task StoreAsync(string clusterId, string deploymentId, string revisionHash,
byte[] artifact, CancellationToken ct = default)
=> Task.CompletedTask;
public Task<CachedDeploymentArtifact?> GetCurrentAsync(
string clusterId, CancellationToken ct = default)
=> Task.FromResult(current);
public Task<CachedDeploymentArtifact?> GetCurrentUnkeyedAsync(CancellationToken ct = default)
{
Interlocked.Increment(ref _unkeyedReads);
return Task.FromResult(current);
}
}
private sealed class ThrowingReadCache : IDeploymentArtifactCache
{
public Task StoreAsync(string clusterId, string deploymentId, string revisionHash,
byte[] artifact, CancellationToken ct = default)
=> Task.CompletedTask;
public Task<CachedDeploymentArtifact?> GetCurrentAsync(
string clusterId, CancellationToken ct = default)
=> throw new InvalidOperationException("cache unreadable");
public Task<CachedDeploymentArtifact?> GetCurrentUnkeyedAsync(CancellationToken ct = default)
=> throw new InvalidOperationException("cache unreadable");
}
}