If you’re running Kubernetes, you’re running etcd. The distributed key-value store was started as an intern project at CoreOS by Xiang Li, who is still maintaining it but now working on infrastructure at Alibaba. Xiang joins your hosts to discuss.

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News of the week

vSphere 7 and VMware Tanzu announcements
Docker announces new strategy and roadmap
Hitachi Vantara acquires Containership’s assets
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Lens, now from Lakend Labs
KEDA and SMI join the CNCF Sandbox
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EKS supports Kubernetes 1.15
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gVisor thread by Ian Lewis
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Google Cloud moves to its own ACME certificate provider
GKE Workload Identity is GA
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Bank Vaults 1.0 and HSM support by Banzai Cloud
CNCF joins Google Summer of Code
Lifemiles case study
Rancher Labs raises $40m
- Episode 57, with Darren Shepherd

Links from the interview

etcd
- etcd on GitHub
How Kubernetes uses etcd
The history of etcd, including the famous garage
Built to handle upgrading CoreOS Container Linux nodes
Prior art:
- Zookeeper: too much JVM
- Doozer: not enough community
- Chubby: too private to Google
Paxos
- The paper
- Paxos Made Live - An Engineering Perspective
Multi-Paxos
raft
- The paper
Announcing etcd
- Ben and Blake
etcd3 moved from a tree keyspace to flat keyspace
- Latest version: etcd 3.4
etcd and Kubernetes at Alibaba:
- Demystifying Kubernetes as a Service – How Alibaba Cloud Manages 10,000s of Kubernetes Clusters
- Performance optimization of etcd in web scale data scenario
The first etcd operator created by Xiang
Jepsen tests of 0.4.1 and 3.4.3
CNCF to host etcd in December 2018
etcd roadmap
Xiang Li on GitHub
Xiang Li on Twitter

etcd, with Xiang Li

Kubernetes Podcast from Google