April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
14h 34m
English
Kubernetes switched from etcd2 to etcd3 in Kubernetes 1.6. This was a big deal. Scaling Kubernetes to 5,000 nodes wasn't possible due to limitations of etcd2, especially related to the watch implementation. The scalability needs of Kubernetes drove many of the improvements of etcd3, as CoreOS used Kubernetes as a measuring stick. Some of the big ticket items are as follows:
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