How to do it...

  1. Bring the required dependencies to begin with.
  2. Edit the build.sbt file and add Akka Sharding and distributed data dependencies as follows:
      libraryDependencies += "com.typesafe.akka" %        "akka-cluster-sharding_2.11" % "2.4.17"      libraryDependencies += "com.typesafe.akka" %        "akka-distributed-data-experimental_2.11" % "2.4.17"

Then run sbt update to retrieve the dependencies from the central repository.

  1. Create a new file named application-cluster-sharding-1.conf in the src/main/resources directory with the following contents:
      akka {        actor {          provider = "akka.cluster.ClusterActorRefProvider"        }        remote {          log-remote-lifecycle-events = off          enabled-transports = ["akka.remote.netty.tcp"]          netty.tcp {            hostname = "127.0.0.1" port = ...

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