What is the official procedure for scaling up/down an existing dgraph cluster ? As an exercise, I’m currently looking at scaling down a dgraph deployment running on kubernetes from 3 zeros and 3 alphas => 1 zero & 1 alpha. I’ve done this in the past and found myself in a situation where the alpha k…

As @aman-bansal said, /removeNode is meant to replace unhealthy nodes. That means it’s not used to remove the current leader of the group. Doing so can make the existing members stuck trying to connect if the leader was suddenly removed and there’s no longer a majority. The process to call /removeN…

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paulrostorp (Paul Rostorp) October 11, 2020, 4:39pm 8

Thanks @dmai, this is very useful information.

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