RktWhat is etcd?
etcd is a distributed key value store that provides a reliable way to store data across a cluster of machines. It’s open-source and available on GitHub. etcd gracefully handles master elections during network partitions and will tolerate machine failure, including the master.
etcd is a tool in the API Tools category of a tech stack.
etcd Pros & Cons
Pros of etcd
- ✓Service discovery
- ✓Fault tolerant key value store
- ✓Bundled with coreos
- ✓Secure
- ✓Consol integration
- ✓Open Source
- ✓Privilege Access Management
Cons of etcd
No cons listed yet.
etcd Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to etcd?
Consul
Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable.
Zookeeper
A centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. All of these kinds of services are used in some form or another by distributed applications.
Eureka
Eureka is a REST (Representational State Transfer) based service that is primarily used in the AWS cloud for locating services for the purpose of load balancing and failover of middle-tier servers.
Keepalived
The main goal of this project is to provide simple and robust facilities for loadbalancing and high-availability to Linux system and Linux based infrastructures.
