Excellent post. We made the mistake of trying to use Chef to deal with seed node discovery in our Akka cluster and that was a terrible idea. Really wish we'd gone with the AWS SDK instead.
Excellent post! How do you ensure that you don't split the cluster - do you have to configure the ASG to add the 2nd node only when the first one is already up? If so, how exactly do you do that?
Nice post. Would love to more about your application of Akka Cluster -- it's far and away the most interesting part of Akka to me, and something we have plans to build some very interesting systems on top of.