What problem it solves

Distributed systems need a reliable place to store critical data and coordinate access to it. The project addresses this with a well-defined API, replication through Raft, and security features such as automatic TLS.

Key features

• Well-defined gRPC API — The user-facing API is designed to be simple and is provided through gRPC.

  Source: README

• Secure client communication — Cluster communication supports TLS, with optional authentication through client certificates.

  Source: README

• Raft-based replication — The Raft consensus algorithm manages a highly available replicated log across distributed members.

  Source: README

• Local cluster tooling — A Procfile-based setup can start a local three-member cluster and an optional gRPC proxy.

  Source: README, Procfile

• Robustness testing — The project includes a dedicated robustness-testing area to support reliability assurance.

  Source: README, tests

Quick start

Copied verbatim from the project's README.

/tmp/etcd-download-test/etcd

etcdctl put mykey "this is awesome"
etcdctl get mykey

go get go.etcd.io/etcd/client/v3

Who it may suit

This may suit developers and operators building distributed systems that need reliable replicated key-value storage or a local cluster for experimentation.

Topics to discuss

• How should teams balance the simplicity of the gRPC API with their operational requirements?

• What practices are most effective for securing etcd clusters in production environments?

• Which community improvements would be most valuable for robustness testing and cluster operations?

Written by ReadmeX AI from the project's README, source and public GitHub data; it may contain mistakes.

Read the original README https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd#readme

ReadmeX opened this community for a trending project; it is not run by the project. Maintainers can claim it from the community page.