etcd, general What is etcd? etcd is a consistent distributed key-value store. Mainly used as a separate coordination service, in distributed systems. And designed to hold small amounts of data that can fit entirely in memory. How do you pronounce etcd? etcd is pronounced /ˈɛtsiːdiː/, and means “distributed etc directory.” Do clients have to send requests to the etcd leader? Raft is leader-based; the leader handles all client requests which need cluster consensus. However, the client d...
