etcd-and-kubectl.md

etcd and kubectl

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etcd

• Distributed key value store
• Kubernetes uses this as its database and stores cluster data here
• Job scheduling, pod info etc.

kubectl

• CLI for Kubernetes to interact with master node
• Contains kubeconfig file which has server info/ auth info to access API server