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etcd

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etcd is a key-value database commonly deployed with distributed systems. The software is used by Kubernetes, and it is written in the Go programming language and published under the Apache License 2.0.

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Year
2015 1
Significance
A distributed key-value store best known as the coordination backbone of Kubernetes. 1
Status
Status
Active / In Use 1
Classification
License
Apache License 2.0 1
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1. Wikipedia: etcd
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  • Lead section
    etcd is a key-value database commonly deployed with distributed systems. The software is used by Kubernetes.
  • Lead sentence
    etcd is a key-value database commonly deployed with distributed systems.
  • Article text
    As of 2018, all 32 of the CFNFs Kubernetes compliant distributions and platforms used etcd as their datastore.
  • Lead section
    The software is used by Kubernetes. It is written in the Go programming language and published under the Apache License 2.0.
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