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In Kubernetes, everything looks fine—until etcd breaks. etcd is the brain of the cluster.If it’s lost, your deployments, services, and configurations disappear with it. This short story documents how I backed up etcd, deleted a deployment, and restor...

Guide to Backing Up and Restoring an ETCD Cluster with Built-in Snapshots. In the world of distributed systems and containerized environments, ensuring data integrity and availability is paramount. Etcd, a distributed key-value store, is at the heart...
