Kamil Braun 0eda7a2619 raft: server: add trigger_snapshot API ...

This allows the user of `raft::server` to ask it to create a snapshot
and truncate the Raft log. In a later commit we'll add a REST endpoint
to Scylla to trigger group 0 snapshots.

One use case for this API is to create group 0 snapshots in Scylla
deployments which upgraded to Raft in version 5.2 and started with an
empty Raft log with no snapshot at the beginning. This causes problems,
e.g. when a new node bootstraps to the cluster, it will not receive a
snapshot that would contain both schema and group 0 history, which would
then lead to inconsistent schema state and trigger assertion failures as
observed in scylladb/scylladb#16683.

In 5.4 the logic of initial group 0 setup was changed to start the Raft
log with a snapshot at index 1 (ff386e7a44)
but a problem remains with these existing deployments coming from 5.2,
we need a way to trigger a snapshot in them (other than performing 1000
arbitrary schema changes).

Another potential use case in the future would be to trigger snapshots
based on external memory pressure in tablet Raft groups (for strongly
consistent tables).

2024-01-23 16:48:28 +01:00

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