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Setting HypriotOS on a Raspberry PI 4 PicoCluster

A few weeks ago I ordered a PicoCluster for an upcoming learning project and blogpost series, to my surprise the entire setup wasn't straightforward. The bundled application set couldn't initially see each other node and neither connect to my Wi-Fi network, and after fiddling with the config I gave up on the default image. Having WiFi and Ethernet is important in the setup because I want download and run docker images, and each node can see each other through LAN. Some weeks before buying the cluster I took an Akka Training at Lunatech  where we saw how a similar cluster was used to show Akka Cluster, and having heard of HypriotOS and how easily it could run docker containers I decided to give a shot. Flashing The first step involves flashing the SD cards with Hypriot image, this guys provide a flash tool with convenient configuration parameters. For this step I'm using release 2.4.0, I'd to flash a card several times until I got the WLAN config correctly, mayb