Several race and validity gaps could leave certificate provisioning
stuck, unusable, or noisy:
- Accept the HTTP-01 challenge only after the key authorization is
committed, so the CA cannot hit the token before this instance can
serve it and invalidate the order.
- Persist challenge metadata under a blocking write-back lock; a row
merely locked by a competing transaction no longer silently drops the
accepted order.
- Abandon a recovered VALID order and restart instead of issuing it
with a freshly generated key that cannot match the existing cert.
- Exclude rate-limited rows from the ten-minute stale reset so the
resumable order survives the ACME cooldown.
- Size the provisioning poll lease to exceed the max processing window
so a released claim lock cannot let another worker process the same
row concurrently.
- Parse Retry-After as unsigned seconds and clamp overflow so malformed
values fall back to the default cooldown instead of disabling it.
- Normalize the acme_errors problem_type label to the RFC 8555 set to
bound Prometheus cardinality.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Frimin <bryan@probo.com>