[19.1] Use the system CA bundle for gRPC default roots
What does this MR do and why?
Backport of Use the system CA bundle for gRPC default roots.
Points gRPC's default CA roots at Gitlab::X509::Certificate.ca_certs_bundle — the
same CA bundle every other gRPC client in the codebase uses — instead of gRPC's own
vendored etc/roots.pem, in config/initializers/grpc.rb. The bundled gRPC roots
update on gRPC's own release schedule and can lag the system trust store; the gem we
vendor predates the eMudhra/emSign CA distrust, so gRPC clients using default
credentials (e.g. the Cells Topology Service client and the Google Artifact Registry
client) would verify against a stale root set. With this change, both Omnibus and CNG
gRPC TLS honor the system/embedded cacert.pem and any admin-added trusted-certs.
This is a clean cherry-pick of the single source commit; both files are new, so there are no conflicts on any stable branch.
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