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Etcd – the key-value store for Kubernetes

February 26, 2023June 14, 2022 by Digi Hunch

Etcd in Kubernetes In Kubernetes architecture, etcd is the data store. It stores the desired state of Kubernetes object. API server is the only client that connects to etcd (via gRPC protocol). Cluster builder specifies the endpoint of etcd as a parameter to the kube-api-server process. Other Kubernetes components, whether in the control plane or … Read moreEtcd – the key-value store for Kubernetes

Local multi-node cluster – Minikube, MicroK8s and KinD

February 26, 2023September 14, 2021 by Digi Hunch

In this post we compare Minikube, MicroK8s and KinD as different approaches to build multi-node cluster locally. Is Docker desktop bad? In the previous post about docker desktop as a single-node Kubernetes cluster setup, I touched on the deprecation of docker-shim. Now that CRI beats OCI as the standard for container runtime, the docker runtime … Read moreLocal multi-node cluster – Minikube, MicroK8s and KinD