etcd is a distributed key-value store designed to reliably and quickly preserve and provide access to critical data. It enables reliable distributed coordination through distributed locking, leader elections, and write barriers. An etcd cluster is intended for high availability and permanent data storage and retrieval.
New etcd users and developers should get started by downloading and building etcd. After getting etcd, follow this quick demo to see the basics of creating and working with an etcd cluster.
The easiest way to get started using etcd as a distributed key-value store is to set up a local cluster.
- Setting up local clusters
- Interacting with etcd
- API references
- gRPC gateway
- Experimental features and APIs
Administrators who need to create reliable and scalable key-value stores for the developers they support should begin with a cluster on multiple machines.
- Setting up clusters
- Run etcd clusters inside containers
- Configuration
- Security
- Monitoring
- Maintenance
- Understand failures
- Disaster recovery
- Performance
- Versioning
- Supported platform
To learn more about the concepts and internals behind etcd, read the following pages:
- Why etcd (TODO)
- Understand data model
- Understand APIs
- Glossary
- Internals (TODO)