bitwalker/libcluster

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

An Elixir library that automatically forms and heals clusters of Erlang nodes using pluggable strategies such as EPMD, multicast UDP gossip, Kubernetes metadata/DNS, and Rancher. It supports static or dynamic node membership and custom clustering strategies.

Use cases

• automatically connect Elixir nodes into a cluster
• form a Phoenix cluster on Kubernetes
• heal an Erlang distribution cluster after node failures
• discover nodes via multicast gossip
• set up static clustering of Erlang nodes
• implement a custom clustering strategy for my environment

When to choose

• you run Elixir/Erlang apps that need multi-node clustering
• you deploy on Kubernetes and want automatic node discovery
• you want pluggable, configurable clustering topologies

When to avoid

• you run a single-node application
• you need clustering for non-BEAM languages
• you need service discovery outside the Erlang distribution model

Facets

library · maturity stable

microservices service-discovery networking concurrency microservices backend elixir jvm self-hosted clustering erlang-distribution elixir kubernetes node-discovery distributed-erlang devops linux docker

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