Fix handling large states in the Consul backend #28838
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The logic in e680211 to determine whether a given state is small enough to fit in a single KV entry in Consul is buggy: because we are using the Transaction API we are base64 encoding it so the payload sent is actually bigger than the raw state, and there is some JSON overhead. This fixes this issue by always trying to store the state in a single entry, and we split it if Consul tells us that is too large. Because we don't try to guess we don't fail anymore.
As far as I know no user as encountered this bug but this patch should be backported to the 0.14 branch as it was the first version to have this feature in the Consul backend.