If you’re running Kubernetes, you’re running etcd. The distributed key-value store was started as an intern project at CoreOS by Xiang Li, who is still maintaining it but now working on infrastructure at Alibaba. Xiang joins your hosts to discuss.
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Links from the interview
- etcd
- How Kubernetes uses etcd
- The history of etcd, including the famous garage
- Built to handle upgrading CoreOS Container Linux nodes
- Prior art:
- Paxos
- Multi-Paxos
- raft
- Announcing etcd
- etcd3 moved from a tree keyspace to flat keyspace
- etcd and Kubernetes at Alibaba:
- The first etcd operator created by Xiang
- Jepsen tests of 0.4.1 and 3.4.3
- CNCF to host etcd in December 2018
- etcd roadmap
- Xiang Li on GitHub
- Xiang Li on Twitter
Original Source: https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/095-etcd/