Worker (hermes-agent) was hard-pinned to titan-08 (a workaround after an earlier
attempt to place it on the amd64 titan-22 failed on architecture). That single-
node pin is exactly what makes it fragile: a titan-08 blip (as just happened when
the node's Longhorn CSI went down) strands worker, and the Recreate strategy then
deadlocks because the replacement can't schedule on the one tight node.
Restore the intended multi-node design: run on any arm64 storage worker except the
known-bad/weak ones (matching the repo's own affinity test, which was red). Its
Longhorn volumes have data-locality disabled with replicas on titan-15/17/19, so
there is no locality penalty to running on another node; the scheduler now places
it on a roomier Pi (e.g. titan-05) and a node blip simply reschedules it.
Also relax the gateway /api/status liveness probe (timeout 10s->15s,
failureThreshold 3->5) so a transient slowness (e.g. a brief storage hiccup) no
longer trips a kill-and-restart cascade.
Follow-up (separate): multi-arch agent image to enable the amd64 titan-22 target.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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