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Writing to etcd

Adding a KV pair to an etcd cluster

Prerequisites

  • Install etcdctl

Procedure

Use the put subcommand to write a key-value pair:

etcdctl --endpoints=$ENDPOINTS put foo "Hello World!"

where:

  • foo is the key name
  • "Hello World!" is the quote-delimited value
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Adapted from etcd v3.7 documentation (v3.7, commit 8245979), Copyright 2013-present etcd Authors, under CC BY 4.0. See attribution and change history.