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Announcing etcd v3.6.0
Thursday, May 15, 2025 in Blog
Table of Contents Introduction Security Features Migration to v3store Downgrade Feature Gates Livez/readyz checks v3discovery Performance Memory Throughput Breaking changes Old Binaries Are Incompatible with New Schema Versions Peer Endpoints No …
How to Prevent a Common Failure when Upgrading etcd v3.5 to v3.6
Thursday, March 27, 2025 in Blog
There is a common issue 19557 in the etcd v3.5 to v3.6 upgrade that may cause the upgrade process to fail. You can find detailed information and related discussions in the issue. TL; DR Users are required to first upgrade to etcd v3.5.20 (or a higher …
Engage with the etcd project at KubeCon NA 2023
Sunday, November 05, 2023 in Blog
KubeCon NA 2023 in Chicago is just around the corner! This year, the etcd project has a diverse range of talks, tutorials, and even interactive contribfest sessions for you to get involved in . As a critical foundational pillar of the Kubernetes …
Introducing sig-etcd
Wednesday, November 01, 2023 in Blog
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are a fundamental part of the Kubernetes project, with a substantial share of the community activity happening within them. When the need arises, new SIGs can be created, and that was precisely what happened recently. …
How to debug large db size issue?
Wednesday, January 04, 2023 in Blog
Background Users can configure the quota of the backend db size using flag --quota-backend-bytes. It’s the max number of bytes the etcd db file may consume, namely the ${etcd-data-dir}/member/snap/db file. Its default value is 2GB, and the …
etcd Integrates Continuous Fuzzing
Friday, March 11, 2022 in Blog
In the last few months, the team at Ada Logics has worked on integrating continuous fuzzing into the etcd project. This was an effort focused on improving the security posture of etcd and ensuring a continued good experience for etcds users. The …
Announcing etcd 3.5
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 in Blog
When we launched etcd 3.4 back in August 2019, our focus was on storage backend improvements, non-voting member and pre-vote features. Since then, etcd has become more widely used for various mission critical clustering and database applications and …
Latest Jepsen Results against etcd 3.4.3
Thursday, January 30, 2020 in Blog
Jepsen tested and analyzed etcd 3.4.3, and had both good results and useful feedback to share with us. A key part of etcd’s design is strong consistency guarantees across the distributed key-value store. Kubernetes, Rook, OpenStack, and …
Container Linux with systemd
Tuesday, May 23, 2017 in Blog
This is an adaptation of a page previously found in the Platforms section of the documentation which described etcd deployments on various platform services. The original page was authored by Gyuho Lee. The following blog post shows how to run etcd …
Deployment of etcd on AWS EC2
Monday, April 10, 2017 in Blog
This is an adaptation of a page previously found in the Platforms section of the documentation which described etcd deployments on various platform services. The original page was authored by Caleb Miles and others. This post provides an …