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Isn't this fundamentally k8s treating the pods as cattle? Your service could fail ungracefully at any time for all kinds of reasons, so the client needs to be
by joshuamorton 5y ago
Isn't this fundamentally k8s treating the pods as cattle?
Your service could fail ungracefully at any time for all kinds of reasons, so the client needs to be somewhat prepared (with retries or whatever). If your client can retry then this doesn't matter unless you have no replication? Am I missing something?
- yashap 5y agoClients can only retry idempotent requests safely. Standard POSTs, for example, cannot be safely retried - you can end up with duplicates.