Register ephemeral browser nodes in Selenium Grid 4 dynamic grid with Docker

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Verified steps

  1. Deploy the Hub (or the full Grid in Hub-Distributor-Router mode) using the official selenium/hub Docker image; expose the event bus ports (4442 and 4443) alongside the Grid UI port (4444)
  2. Configure the Node to use the dynamic execution mode by providing Docker daemon URI and a mapping of browser name to Docker image (for example, selenium/node-chrome) in the node's TOML or environment variables
  3. Start the Node container pointing at the Hub's event bus address; the Node self-registers by sending a registration event through the event bus, and the Distributor verifies it via an HTTP health check
  4. When a test session is requested, the Grid provisions an ephemeral container for that browser, routes the session to it, and tears the container down when the session ends
  5. Scale the number of concurrent sessions by adjusting the max-sessions flag on the Node or by deploying multiple Node replicas behind a load balancer

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