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.
| etcd | |
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| Repository | |
| Written in | Go |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | etcd |
History
editetcd was originally developed as part of the CoreOS project, who then later donated the project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.[2]
Architecture
editThe software consists of three executables:[2]
etcdetcdctletcdutl
On particular database entries, locks can be set to prevent writing by other entities while it is being used.[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Dobies, Jason; Wood, Joshua. Kubernetes Operators. O'Reilly Media.
- ^ a b c 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.