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[Feature] Equivalent of "Node Isolation" in K8s

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Description

We need to make sure that atelet and ateom only have privileges to act on behalf of actors that are actually assigned to them.

* If you break out of an actor to compromise an atelet / node, then you can modify the snapshots that atelet writes. This gives you RCE on the next node that actor is restored onto.
* My suspicion is that the churn in actors will mean that a compromise of one node will quickly be able to pivot to many more nodes, as compromised actors get restored on different nodes.
* Traditional node isolation (in the k8s sense) will not be a sufficient defense against this.
* We may need to consider a strategy where we divide the fleet of actors into N bins, and ensure that actors from different bins are never co-scheduled.
* The larger N gets, the more efficiency we are giving up for small deployments. So N will need to be somewhat dynamic.

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