refactor(mesh): step 4 — drop the receptionist extension and akka.cluster.client from akka.conf

akka.extensions loses ClusterClientReceptionistExtensionProvider and the whole
akka.cluster.client block (buffer-size / reconnect-timeout / receptionist.role) goes with
it. The DistributedPubSub extension and the maximum-frame-size / log-frame-size-exceeding
canary both stay — DPS is the pair-local transport and the frame canary guards every
remoting message, neither of which the cross-mesh deletion touches.

MeshTransportHoconTests drops its three ClusterClientSettings/ClusterReceptionistSettings
asserts and keeps the frame-size pin and the DPS-extension pin, renamed since it no longer
has a receptionist to survive alongside.
This commit is contained in:
Joseph Doherty
2026-08-06 15:42:39 -04:00
parent 5d7ecdf737
commit d67a7e5d0b
2 changed files with 10 additions and 80 deletions
@@ -13,14 +13,12 @@ akka {
# since the Serilog logger can be slow to initialize at startup.
logger-startup-timeout = 30s
# DistributedPubSub is PAIR-LOCAL and stays: it carries MeshTransport:Mode = Dps (the
# single-mesh default), the node-local alarm-command publishes and the node<->node
# redundancy-state probe leg. What is gone is the cross-mesh command transport, which is now
# gRPC and needs no Akka extension at all.
extensions = [
"Akka.Cluster.Tools.PublishSubscribe.DistributedPubSubExtensionProvider, Akka.Cluster.Tools"
# Per-cluster mesh Phase 2 — the central<->node command boundary. NOT auto-started: without
# this entry the receptionist materialises only if some code path happens to call
# ClusterClientReceptionist.Get(system) first, which makes "is the boundary listening?"
# depend on startup ordering rather than on configuration.
"Akka.Cluster.Tools.Client.ClusterClientReceptionistExtensionProvider, Akka.Cluster.Tools"
]
actor {
@@ -94,31 +92,6 @@ akka {
down-removal-margin = 15s
run-coordinated-shutdown-when-down = on
# CLUSTERCLIENT — the central<->node command boundary (per-cluster mesh Phase 2).
client {
# DELIBERATE, and NOT what the sister project runs: they never wrote this section, so
# they inherit buffer-size = 1000. Zero means "if the receptionist is unknown, drop the
# message now". Buffering would replay a DispatchDeployment on reconnect and apply a
# deployment ConfigPublishCoordinator had already sealed as TimedOut — the node would
# then be running a configuration the database says failed. Fail-fast keeps the DB the
# single record of truth, and reproduces today's DPS behaviour exactly: a node that is
# down misses the publish and self-heals from the DB on restart.
buffer-size = 0
# Retry forever rather than self-stopping the client. Restates Akka's default; stated
# explicitly because the behaviour is load-bearing — a central node down for an hour
# must not require a driver-node restart to become reachable again.
reconnect-timeout = off
receptionist {
# Empty = every member hosts a receptionist. This is what makes the comm actors
# "registered per node, not as a singleton" work: contact rotation reaches whichever
# node answers. Restates Akka's default; do NOT scope this to a role, or the
# boundary becomes reachable through one node only and rotation silently fails.
role = ""
}
}
singleton {
singleton-name = "singleton"
}