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DYNAMICALLY CHANGING MEMBERS OF A CONSENSUS GROUP IN A DISTRIBUTED SELF-HEALING COORDINATION SERVICE

  • US 20160019125A1
  • Filed: 07/17/2014
  • Published: 01/21/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for managing a consensus group in a distributed computing cluster, the method comprising:

  • determining that an instance of an authority module executing on a first node, of a consensus group of nodes in the distributed computing cluster, has failed; and

    adding, by an instance of the authority module on a second node of the consensus group, a new node to the consensus group to replace the first node, wherein the new node comprises a node in the computing cluster that was not a member of the consensus group at the time the instance of the authority module executing on the first node is determined to have failed.

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