September 10, 2020 By Whitney Lee < 1 min read

How can you ensure that your data is stored consistently and reliably across a distributed system?

In this lightboarding video, I cover the basics of how etcd—an open source, distributed key-value data store—can reliably hold and manage critical information. etcd can be relied upon to be a single source of truth for a distributed system or cluster of machines. Most notably, etcd manages the configuration data, state data, and metadata for Kubernetes, the popular container orchestration platform.

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