Introduction to ETCD

Using ectdctl to create a simple key-value store

Joe Cardillo

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Keys laying on a table, all facing the same direction
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What is ETCD?

The technical definition is: “etcd is a consistent and highly-available key value store used as Kubernetes’ backing store for all cluster data.” What does that mean, though? Let’s see if we can take a look under the hood and start with the basics.

What is a key-value…

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