DevOps · Flashcard
How many member failures can a 5-member etcd cluster tolerate?
Why this is the answer
With 5 members the quorum is 3, so up to 2 can fail and the remaining 3 still form a majority. One survivor cannot commit (no majority); it tolerates two, not one; and two members are a minority of five, so three failures break the quorum.
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