Single-node Harvester for development versus fresh HA install for production: migration cost trade-off
Context Harvester v1.3–1.4 officially supports single-node clusters for development and edge scenarios. The installer provisions an embedded etcd member and sets the Longhorn default replica count to 1. For production HA, the documented path requires at least three server nodes, a 3-member etcd cluster, and a Longhorn default replica count of 3 with anti-aff