Provide a way to transfer leadership via API or CLI
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Description
This would be great for example when upgrading a consul cluster. Before restarting the leader, it could transfer leadership which is faster because it doesn't need to wait for the electionTimeout to fire. Requires https://github.com/hashicorp/raft/pull/306.
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