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feat(Documentation/api): add some intro material 

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Brandon Philips 2014-01-05 23:04:27 -08:00
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## etcd API
# etcd API
### Running a Single Machine Cluster
## Running a Single Machine Cluster
These examples will use a single machine cluster to show you the basics of the etcd REST API.
Let's start etcd:
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The `-data-dir machine0` argument tells etcd to write machine configuration, logs and snapshots to the `./machine0/` directory.
The `-name machine` tells the rest of the cluster that this machine is named machine0.
## Key Space Operations
The primary API of etcd is hierarchical key space.
There are directories and keys which are generically referred to as "nodes".
### Setting the value to a key