Change Serf communication from local to http calls #1330
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We plan to run Serf member on a different host than catalyst-api, therefore it needs to communicate remotely rather than directly accessing Serf.
Design Doc: https://www.notion.so/livepeer/Zero-Impact-Catalyst-API-Deployments-c2b15232f3a2450ba3e4803130ecd2be
Rationale behind this approach
Stateless catalyst-api needs to receive Serf user events to perform a few actions: multistream update, nuke stream, stop sessions, etc.
Technically, we have 2 options here:
I chose Option 1, mainly because:
hostPort
, but for Stateless Catalyst API it would need to be somehow dynamic)