This document tracks people and use cases for etcd in production. By creating a list of production use cases we hope to build a community of advisors that we can reach out to with experience using various etcd applications, operation environments, and cluster sizes. The etcd development team may reach out periodically to check-in on how etcd is working in the field and update this list.
All Kubernetes clusters use etcd as their primary data store. This means etcd's users include such companies as [Niantic, Inc Pokemon Go](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/bringing-Pokemon-GO-to-life-on-Google-Cloud.html), [Box](https://blog.box.com/blog/kubernetes-box-microservices-maximum-velocity/), [CoreOS](https://coreos.com/tectonic), [Ticketmaster](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqXVKneP0Hg), and many many more.
discovery.etcd.io is the longest continuously running etcd backed service that we know about. It is the basis of automatic cluster bootstrap and was launched in Feb. 2014: https://coreos.com/blog/etcd-0.3.0-released/.
- *Backups*: Periodic sync to Ceph RadosGW and DigitalOcean VM
CyCore Systems provides architecture and engineering for computing systems. This cluster provides microservices, virtual machines, databases, storage clusters to a number of clients. It is built on CoreOS machines, with each machine in the cluster running etcd as a peer or proxy.
Radius Intelligence uses Kubernetes running CoreOS to containerize and scale internal toolsets. Examples include running [JetBrains TeamCity][teamcity] and internal AWS security and cost reporting tools. etcd clusters back these clusters as well as provide some basic environment bootstrapping configuration keys.
PD(Placement Driver) is the central controller in the TiDB cluster. It saves the cluster meta information, schedule the data, allocate the global unique timestamp for the distributed transaction, etc. It embeds etcd to supply high availability and auto failover.
- *Application*: Meta data and configuration data for service discovery, Kubernetes, etc.
- *Launched*: Jan. 2015
- *Cluster Size*: 3 members each with 10s of clusters
- *Order of Data Size*: 10s of Megabytes
- *Operator*: Tencent Game Operations Department
- *Environment*: Baremetal
- *Backups*: Periodic sync to backup server
In Tencent games, we use Docker and Kubernetes to deploy and run our applications, and use etcd to save meta data for service discovery, Kubernetes, etc.
- *Application*: Kubernetes, distributed locks, etc.
- *Launched*: April 2016
- *Cluster Size*: 1 cluster of 3 members
- *Order of Data Size*: 10s of MB
- *Operator*: Hyper.sh
- *Environment*: Baremetal
- *Backups*: None, all data can be recreated if necessary.
In [hyper.sh][hyper.sh], the container service is backed by [hypernetes][hypernetes], a multi-tenant kubernetes distro. Moreover, we use etcd to coordinate the multiple manage services and store global meta data.
