Goodbye etcd, Hello PostgreSQL: Running Kubernetes with an SQL Database

How to replace etcd — the brain of a Kubernetes cluster — with PostgreSQL or any other RDBMS you want

Martin Heinz
Better Programming
Published in
8 min readJul 3, 2023

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etcd is the brain of every Kubernetes cluster, the key-value storage keeping track of all the objects in a cluster. It’s intertwined and tightly coupled with Kubernetes, and…

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