Leader Election, with Mike Danese
Kubernetes Podcast from Google
00:00
Coubernetes - Is There a Failure Mode?
If you are running a cluster with a single control plane node, you only have one instance of that operating. Coubernetes uses something called a leader election so coubernetes has a leader election client. It uses objects in the cobernits api as the coordination mechanism. Wen say three schedulers start, they look at that same object, they try to acquire leadership. And only a single process, hopefully, makes it through that process of acquiring leadership and that becomes the active controller.
Transcript
Play full episode
