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j
jolly-waitress-71272
08/08/2022, 9:04 PMI have 4 metal I want to commit to a k3s cluster. How many should be masters?
c
creamy-pencil-82913
08/09/2022, 1:51 AMExactly 1 or 3. Never have an odd number of servers unless you are using an external DB for HA.
j
jolly-waitress-71272
08/09/2022, 3:30 AMThanks @creamy-pencil-82913
s
sticky-summer-13450
08/19/2022, 7:55 AMNever have an odd number of servers unless you are using an external DB for HAJust for historic record - is there a typo here? Perhaps
s/odd/even/c
creamy-pencil-82913
08/19/2022, 5:06 PMYes, sorry. Thought I edited that but I must have missed the timeout.
j
jolly-waitress-71272
08/19/2022, 5:19 PMWhat happens during a failure of a master that drops the number of masters down to even when they aren't backed by an external DB?
c
creamy-pencil-82913
08/19/2022, 9:08 PMIf you lose quorum then the datastore is inaccessible until you restore quorum. This is standard behavior for any quorum-based system.
j
jolly-waitress-71272
08/19/2022, 9:25 PMOh no kidding. I bet that's screwed up a bunch of things for me in the past and I just didn't understand it. 😄