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Yes on the first one, and a big nope on the second for now. I passionately loathe Rube Goldberg machine deployments and am the kind of engineer who constantly asks "do we really need that?". I love exterminating complexity. But maybe that will change when we get to millions of concurrent users and tens of millions of devices and actually need Kubernetes to scale.

Raft is not complex. I doubt leader elect would be terribly hard to implement.