Akka.NET Management and Service Discovery

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

• Deploying Akka.NET clusters to Kubernetes or cloud environments
• Replacing static seed nodes with dynamic service discovery
• Configuring cluster bootstrap for auto-formation
• Setting up health endpoints for load balancers
• Integrating with Azure Table Storage, Kubernetes API, or config-based discovery

Reference Files

• discovery-providers.md: Config, Kubernetes, and Azure discovery setup with full code and deployment YAML
• configuration-reference.md: Strongly-typed configuration model classes

Overview

Akka.Management provides HTTP endpoints for cluster management and integrates with Akka.Cluster.Bootstrap to enable dynamic cluster formation using service discovery instead of static seed nodes.