r the case of multiple interdependent services within the same pod.</p><h3 id=example-scenario-ibm-websphere-nd>Example scenario: IBM WebSphere ND</h3><p>Let us consider IBM WebSphere ND &ndash; a widely deployed application middleware &ndash; to grok these problems more closely. It is a fairly complex framework in itself and consists of a central component called deployment manager (<code>dmgr</code>) that manages a set of node instances. It uses UDP to negotiate cluster membership among the nodes and requ