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Discussion on: Horizontal scaling WebSockets on Kubernetes and Node.js

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Tarek N. Elsamni

From practice, they will get disconnected and retry to connect again. They eventually get connected/reallocated to a new pod. It happens almost instantly!

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Robert Grimm

Sure, if the client was build with reconnect logic, then the client will reconnect.

So it seems like something to keep in mind when adding HPA to websockets: make sure the websocket clients can gracefully handle connection drops at any time 👍

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Tarek N. Elsamni

ActionCable, Socket.io and WebSocket library do reconnect automatically when connection is dropped. But as you mentioned you should always think about such scenarios in planning a reliable software