etcd 2.1 released

[Posted July 25, 2015 by corbet]

The etcd 2.1 release is out. "For a quick overview, etcd is an open source, distributed, consistent key value store for shared configuration, service discovery, and scheduler coordination. By using etcd, applications can ensure that even in the face of individual servers failing, the application will continue to work. " New features include a new authentication/authorization API, various robustness improvements, better logging, and a new metrics API.

etcd 2.1 released

Posted Jul 26, 2015 1:59 UTC (Sun) by smckay (guest, #103253) [Link] (2 responses)

Did they make it consistent yet? The last thing I heard about etcd was that it allows stale reads.

etcd 2.1 released

Posted Jul 26, 2015 3:30 UTC (Sun) by sciurus (guest, #58832) [Link] (1 responses)

I believe you can get guaranteed consistent reads if you set quorum=true.

https://github.com/coreos/etcd/issues/741

etcd 2.1 released

Posted Jul 26, 2015 20:04 UTC (Sun) by philipsbd (subscriber, #33789) [Link]

Yes, this is correct. We have had a linearized read via quorum=true for about ~1yr in etcd.