Running into challenges with nodes discovering each other and maintaining cluster stability using Libcluster on Kubernetes

I don’t know what your use cases are, but my advice would be to consider if you really need Kubernetes.

A single BEAM instance (or two, for fault tolerance) on DigitalOcean can serve a large number of concurrent users.

K8s adds a lot more concepts and moving parts to your deployment (I’m a former OpenShift dev), and while it does make sense in some cases, it is not always the best solution.

Are you using Phoenix? The official docs give you some guidance:

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