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title: Options for Highly Available Topology
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This page explains the two options for configuring the topology of your highly available (HA) Kubernetes clusters.
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You can set up an HA cluster:
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- With stacked control plane nodes, where etcd nodes are colocated with control plane nodes
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- With external etcd nodes, where etcd runs on separate nodes from the control plane
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You should carefully consider the advantages and disadvantages of each topology before setting up an HA cluster.
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## Stacked etcd topology
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A stacked HA cluster is a [topology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_topology) where the distributed
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data storage cluster provided by etcd is stacked on top of the cluster formed by the nodes managed by
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kubeadm that run control plane components.
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Each control plane node runs an instance of the `kube-apiserver`, `kube-scheduler`, and `kube-controller-manager`.
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The `kube-apiserver` is exposed to worker nodes using a load balancer.
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Each control plane node creates a local etcd member and this etcd member communicate only with
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the `kube-apiserver` of this node. The same applies to the local `kube-controller-manager`
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and `kube-scheduler` instances.
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This topology couples the control planes and etcd members on the same nodes. It is simpler to set up than a cluster
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with external etcd nodes, and simpler to manage for replication.
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However, a stacked cluster runs the risk of failed coupling. If one node goes down, both an etcd member and a control
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plane instance are lost, and redundancy is compromised. You can mitigate this risk by adding more control plane nodes.
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You should therefore run a minimum of three stacked control plane nodes for an HA cluster.
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This is the default topology in kubeadm. A local etcd member is created automatically
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on control plane nodes when using `kubeadm init` and `kubeadm join --experimental-control-plane`.
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## External etcd topology
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An HA cluster with external etcd is a [topology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_topology) where the distributed data storage cluster provided by etcd is external to the cluster formed by the nodes that run control plane components.
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Like the stacked etcd topology, each control plane node in an external etcd topology runs an instance of the `kube-apiserver`, `kube-scheduler`, and `kube-controller-manager`. And the `kube-apiserver` is exposed to worker nodes using a load balancer. However, etcd members run on separate hosts, and each etcd host communicates with the `kube-apiserver` of each control plane node.
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This topology decouples the control plane and etcd member. It therefore provides an HA setup where
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losing a control plane instance or an etcd member has less impact and does not affect
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the cluster redundancy as much as the stacked HA topology.
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However, this topology requires twice the number of hosts as the stacked HA topology.
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A minimum of three hosts for control plane nodes and three hosts for etcd nodes are required for an HA cluster with this topology.
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- [Set up a highly available cluster with kubeadm](/docs/setup/independent/high-availability/)
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