title: Increasing Replication Factor in YugabyteDB live cluster?
body: <p>[Question posted by a user on <a href="https://www.yugabyte.com/slack" rel="nofollow noreferrer">YugabyteDB Community Slack</a>]</p>
  <p>Is there a way to go from RF1 -&gt; RF3 -&gt; RF5 cluster using the default yb-master + yb-tserver components (not using <code>yugabyted</code> cli) ?</p>
  <p>And if that is not possible, how ready is the <code>yugabyted</code> join that is in beta?</p>