omdb: Use qorb for connecting to control plane services?

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start by tracing omdb’s internal-DNS lookup for control plane services and reviewing how qorb pools are configured. Compare the behavior when no address is specified with the explicit-address path; done means DNS-based connections select reachable Nexus or CRDB services without manual intervention, while explicit addresses continue to work.

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Description

By default, omdb will look up control plane services in internal DNS and pick one. If we're in a sad situation where some instances of Nexus / CRDB aren't accessible, we have to manually point omdb at one of the functional services. In the case where the user hasn't specified a specific address to use and we're relying on DNS, omdb should set up a qorb pool instead, which should do the work for us of picking one of the reachable / functioning services.

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