libcluster
Automatic cluster formation/healing for Elixir applications (by bitwalker)
Nomad
Elixir/Phoenix Cloud SDK and Deployment Tool (by sashaafm)
| libcluster | Nomad | |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | - | |
| 2,034 | 85 | |
| 0.2% | - | |
| 5.6 | 0.0 | |
| 4 months ago | about 5 years ago | |
| Elixir | Elixir | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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libcluster
Posts with mentions or reviews of libcluster.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-05.
- We Chose Long Polling over WebSockets
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Elixir clustering using Postgres
libcluster is the go-to package for connecting multiple BEAM instances and setting up healing strategies. libcluster provides out-of-the-box strategies and it allows users to define their own strategies by implementing a simple behavior that defines cluster formation and healing according to the supporting service you want to use.
- Phoenix 1.7 for Elixir: Edit a Form in a Modal
- Elixir for Ruby developers: the three most important differences
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cannot query kubernetes (unauthorized): endpoints is forbidden: User cannot list endpoints in the namespace
I am using libcluster to connect my nodesI get the following error:
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We used Elixir's Observer to hunt down bottlenecks
Distributed Elixir can be done with Docker containers too, see https://github.com/bitwalker/libcluster which by default has some Kubernetes support but you can also have third party (or custom) clustering strategies. I've not done this myself but I've seen articles about this a lot during the past years.
Hot code updates for most applications aren't really worth it in my opinion, assuming you do something like blue/green rollover deployments. It's cool that it's possible though. But it requires appup files and afaik Distillery is one of the release tools that has support for it built-in.
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If you were in charge of a startup tech stack, how would you use elixir to actually scale and make every work seamlessly?
On the deployment level, you can use synchronous communication using API-based solutions or asynchronous communication using external solutions (RabbitMQ, Kafka,...) or Erlang/Elixir tools (message passing, pg2, PubSub, Libcluster,...)
- Nodes
- Nodes Elixir
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Clustering nodes with different basenames
Looking throught libcluster code (https://github.com/bitwalker/libcluster/blob/master/lib/strategy/kubernetes_dns.ex#L150) it does seem to require that both nodes share the same basename.
Nomad
Posts with mentions or reviews of Nomad.
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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing libcluster and Nomad you can also consider the following projects:
Cloudi - A Cloud at the lowest level!
GCloudex - Friendly set of wrappers for Google Cloud Platform services' API's in Elixir.
discovery - An OTP application for auto-discovering services with Consul
skycluster - Automatic cluster formation/healing for Elixir applications.
aws - AWS clients for Elixir