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Hi, can we have hybrid setup of starrocks cluster ex. FE/CN in kubernetes and BE in VMs or FE/BE on VMs and CN on kube? Thanks

BTW is it possible to have BE/CN together in single cluster?

I tried to do it before making the CN in k8s and FE as a vm, but it didn’t work out (could be my setup) here is a reference:
<https://starrocks.slack.com/archives/C02FACZSNJV/p1756331909518369|https://starrocks.slack.com/archives/C02FACZSNJV/p1756331909518369>

Hi <@U091XFD9G02>  thanks for answering. Just wondering is it possible to have fe/be/cn setup in general and if yes which deployment options is available and how its possible to manage loads between be/cn.

(For reference, my information may not be fully reliable.)

As far as I know, that mechanism was only used temporarily in the past to support the migration from BE to CN, and I believe it no longer works in current versions.

Given that, why are you trying to operate in a hybrid mode?

In this setup you can use starrocks internal dbs with data locality which will run specific workloads and CN nodes will work with lakehouse. It provides good isolation in case of resources.