etcd-io/etcd
Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
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- etcd
- Documentation
- Maintainers
- Getting started
- Getting etcd
- Running etcd
- etcd TCP ports
- Running a local etcd cluster
- Install etcd client v3
- Next steps
- Contact
- Community meetings
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What this repository does
Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system
Repository facts
- Owner
- etcd-io
- Primary language
- Go
- Stars
- 52,486
- Forks
- 10,573
- Open issues + pull requests
- 406
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2013-07-06T21:57:21.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-11-05T13:17:14.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: cncf, consensus, database, distributed-database, distributed-systems, etcd, go, key-value, kubernetes, raft
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