Etcd

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etcd is a key-value database commonly deployed with distributed systems. [1] The software is used by Kubernetes. It is written in the Go programming language and published under the Apache License 2.0.

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History

etcd was originally developed as part of the CoreOS project, who then later donated the project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. [2]

Architecture

The software consists of three executables: [2]

On particular database entries, locks can be set to prevent writing by other entities while it is being used. [2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Dobies, Jason; Wood, Joshua. Kubernetes Operators. O'Reilly Media.
  2. 1 2 3 Burns, Brendan (2024). Designing distributed systems: patterns and paradigms for scalable, reliable services, using Kubernetes (Second ed.). Sebastopol: O'Reilly. ISBN   978-1-0981-5635-0.
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