1. A computer-implemented method of deploying a membership of nodes in a distributed computing system, comprising; selecting nodes to be part of membership of nodes to be deployed; creating a membership task identifying a membership creator node as the node that is creating the membership to be deployed and comprising a membership target identifying at least one node of the distributed computing system that is to become a member of the membership; and creating a beacon configured to send, over a computer network, a create membership message to each node identified in the membership target, the create membership message comprising at least an identity of the membership task and an identification of the membership to be deployed; upon receiving a response from a node in the membership target: removing the node from which the response was received from the beacon; and deploying the membership when a response has been received from each of the nodes identified in the membership target.