etcd-io/etcd

Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

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  1. etcd
  2. Documentation
  3. Maintainers
  4. Getting started
  5. Getting etcd
  6. Running etcd
  7. etcd TCP ports
  8. Running a local etcd cluster
  9. Install etcd client v3
  10. Next steps
  11. Contact
  12. Community meetings

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Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

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Owner
etcd-io
Primary language
Go
Stars
52,486
Forks
10,573
Open issues + pull requests
406
License
Apache-2.0
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main
Created
2013-07-06T21:57:21.000Z
Last push
2026-11-05T13:17:14.000Z

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Owner-supplied topics: cncf, consensus, database, distributed-database, distributed-systems, etcd, go, key-value, kubernetes, raft

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