Issues

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Fixes #2965

Description

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If two nodes try to register at about the same time in the cluster, there may be a race condition while effectively adding the instances to the cluster description in zookeeper (the second one seeing an incomplete node hierarchy and later on refusing to accept tasks). Having an atomic creation of those nodes in zookeeper should prevent that.

Tests

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