Creating Cluster Groups

You can create cluster groups. To do this, use the group configuration element.

You can separate your clusters in a simple way by specifying group names. Example groupings can be by development, production, test, app, etc. The following is an example declarative configuration.

<hazelcast>
    <group>
        <name>production</name>
    </group>
</hazelcast>

You can also define the cluster groups using the programmatic configuration. A JVM can host multiple Hazelcast instances. Each Hazelcast instance can only participate in one group. Each Hazelcast instance only joins to its own group and does not interact with other groups. The following code example creates three separate Hazelcast instances--h1 belongs to the production cluster, while h2 and h3 belong to the development cluster.

        Config configProd = new Config();
        configProd.getGroupConfig().setName( "production" );

        Config configDev = new Config();
        configDev.getGroupConfig().setName( "development" );

        HazelcastInstance h1 = Hazelcast.newHazelcastInstance( configProd );
        HazelcastInstance h2 = Hazelcast.newHazelcastInstance( configDev );
        HazelcastInstance h3 = Hazelcast.newHazelcastInstance( configDev );

Cluster Groups before Hazelcast 3.8.2

If you have a Hazelcast release older than 3.8.2, you need to provide also a group password along with the group name. The following are the configuration examples with the password element:

<hazelcast>
    <group>
        <name>production</name>
        <password>prod-pass</password>
    </group>
</hazelcast>

        Config configProd = new Config();
        configProd.getGroupConfig().setName( "production" ).setPassword( "prod-pass" );

        Config configDev = new Config();
        configDev.getGroupConfig().setName( "development" ).setPassword( "dev-pass" );

        HazelcastInstance h1 = Hazelcast.newHazelcastInstance( configProd );
        HazelcastInstance h2 = Hazelcast.newHazelcastInstance( configDev );
        HazelcastInstance h3 = Hazelcast.newHazelcastInstance( configDev );

Starting with 3.8.2, members no longer perform a password check during the cluster join process. Starting with 3.11, members no longer perform a password check when a client connects to the cluster.

Creating Cluster Groups

Cluster Groups before Hazelcast 3.8.2

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