Developer Tasks

Step-by-step guides for developers using etcd as a key-value store in their applications.

Reading a value in an etcd cluster

Adding a KV pair to an etcd cluster

Guide to extracting etcd keys by their prefix

Describes a way to delete etcd keys

Guide to making transactional writes

Guide to watching etcd keys

Guide to creating a lease in etcd

Guide to creating distributed locks in etcd

Last modified June 24, 2025: etcd-website: reorganised tutorials to tasks (b5f1df7)