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leader-election

2 pages

  • Enable Leader Election

    This guide will show you how to enable leader election for your application. 👷 Help Wanted! Please contribute with examples on how to use the Server Sent Events API.

  • Leader Election

    With leader election it is possible to have one responsible pod. This can be used to control that only one pod runs a batch-job or similar tasks. This is done by asking the elector container which…