A Closer Look at Etcd: The Brain of a Kubernetes Cluster
What etcd contains and how it organizes information
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6 min readAug 12, 2019
Etcd is a crucial component for Kubernetes as it stores the entire state of the cluster: its configuration, specifications, and the statuses of the running workloads. In this piece, we will demystify it to understand how etcd stores all of these pieces of information.
