Red Hat contributes etcd to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
etcd has succeeded as a piece of distributed systems infrastructure beyond our wildest expectation. When Alex Polvi, Xiang Li, and I started the project as a README in the summer of 2013 we identified that their still was no consensus database that was developer friendly, easily secured, production ready, and based on a well understood consensus algorithm. And largely we got lucky with good market timing, the invention of the Raft algorithm, and the explosion of good tooling around the Go language. This lead to early success as etcd was used in locksmith, skydns, and vulcan load balancer.As the years went on we got lucky again that the Kubernetes project chose etcd as its primary key-value database. This helped to establish the project as a must use piece of infrastructure software. Which went on to influence the technology selection of storage, database, networking, and many other projects. Just check out all of the stickers of projects relying on etcd that I could find at KubeCon here in Seattle. https://twitter.com/BrandonPhilips/status/107370136987218739...For a sense of all of the projects that use checkout this list we maintain in the project: https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/blob/master/Documentation/in...Some notable projects include: Kubernetes, Rook, CoreDNS, Uber M3, Trillian, Vitess, TiDB, and many many others.Moving into the CNCF will help to bring a few things to the project:- Funding and resources to complete regular third-party security audits and correctness audits- On-call rotation and team for the discovery.etcd.io system- Assistance in maintaining a documentation website- Resources to fund face to face meetup groups and maintainer meetingsAs a closing remark I want to thank the over 450 contributors and the entire maintainer team for bringing the project to this point. We are solving an important distributed systems problem with a focused piece of technology.In fact, in Seattle this week we all got together as a maintainer team for the first time ever: https://twitter.com/sp_zala/status/1073239003330015233If you want to learn more about the history of the project checkout this other post blog post: https://coreos.com/blog/history-etcd