1. Basic Introduction to Etcd Etcd is a distributed Key/Value storage system. Through distributed locks, leader election, and write barriers it achieves distributed coordination, offering highly available, persistent data storage and retrieval services. How it works Every Etcd node stores a complete copy of the data, and at any moment

This post mainly explains why the service discovery feature is needed and compares several service discovery tools. It also puts service discovery with Etcd, Confd, and Nginx into practice on CentOS. 1. Service Registration and Discovery 1.1 Why Service Registration and Discovery Are Needed With the rise of microservices, a