[akka-user] cluster sharding failover

2014-02-17 Thread James Bellenger
Hi gang, a question regarding shard failover Here's my 3-node setup (using akka-2.3.0 rc3): - backend 1 - backend 2 - frontend All nodes initialize ClusterSharding at startup -- frontend supplies an empty entryProps so that it does not host any regions. Frontend starts pinging a range

Re: [akka-user] akka cluster seed nodes on ec2

2014-02-11 Thread James Bellenger
Hi Tim, We have a similar-ish setup over here. We ended up registering all nodes in zookeeper and doing discovery through that. This works well for initial cluster startup as well as nodes joining an existing cluster. It also works well for hybrid environments that are not all on aws. On Tue,

Re: [akka-user] clean cluster exit

2014-02-11 Thread James Bellenger
tries to be overly thorough here; so much so that I would call it a bughttps://www.assembla.com/spaces/ddEDvgVAKr3QrUeJe5aVNr/tickets/3869. Thanks for reporting! Regards, Roland On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:34 PM, James Bellenger ja...@kixeye.com wrote: Hi gang. What is the process

[akka-user] clean cluster exit

2014-02-10 Thread James Bellenger
Hi gang. What is the process for a node to gracefully exit a cluster? Nodes in our system are going through this sequence: - jvm gets the shutdown signal - node calls cluster.leave(cluster.selfAddress) - node waits until it sees MemberRemoved with its own address - node gives