
Adding and removing nodes to an existing CoreOS etcd2 cluster using etcdctl
Now that our 3-node etcd2 cluster is up and running in Amazon EC2 using CoreOS it’s time to learn how to add or remove nodes in the cluster dynamically. etcdctl tool Etcdctl is a client tool written in Go that comes in handy while manipulating an etcd cluster. It's commonly used to perform usual operations such as setting, updating or removing keys, although it's also possible through the etcd rest api. For a complete reference to these basic commands see the official docs. D

Setting up an etcd cluster in AWS using CoreOS
Now that you have learned where etcd used and had some fun playing with an online etcd cluster simulator, let's move on and create our own etcd cluster in Amazon EC2 using CoreOS (a lightweight operational system designed for massive deployments using container based solutions). Go to this CoreOS web page and inside stable channel, find us-east-1 region (North Virginia) and select the ami related with HVM (this kind of Amazon Linux Images is suited for many different EC2 mach

Etcd Overview
Etcd is a distributed, consistent key-value store used for shared configuration and service discovery. It's written in Go and maintained by CoreOS team and it comes with CoreOS Linux distribution, although it's easily installed in any other Linux distribution or even in Windows environment. The project code and its full documentation can be found in GitHub. It's being used by mature projects like Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry and it's surrounded by an active community. Etcd ha