advancedHigh Availability: Multi-Node Control Plane & Leader Election
Does the Kubernetes API Server use leader election like the Scheduler does?
No — every API Server replica is independently active and serves requests simultaneously, since handling read/write API requests doesn't have the 'only one instance should be doing this at a time' requirement that scheduling and reconciliation do.
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