[Question posted by a user on YugabyteDB Community Slack]
Is there a way to go from RF1 -> RF3 -> RF5 cluster using the default yb-master + yb-tserver components (not using yugabyted cli) ?
And if that is not possible, how ready is the yugabyted join that is in beta?
yugabyted cli doesn't let you change the RF natively. By design, when you start a 1 node cluster it is started as RF1. As you add the second and third node, the RF is automatically bumped to 3 and then it remains 3 when you add more nodes subsequently.
For changing the RF, you can use the yb-admin command modify-placement-info.