containers/bitnami/etcd

Bitnami Secure Image for Etcd

etcd is a distributed key-value store designed to securely store data across a cluster. etcd is widely used in production on account of its reliability, fault-tolerance and ease of use.

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TL;DR

docker run -it --name etcd bitnami/etcd:latest

Why use Bitnami Secure Images?

Those are hardened, minimal CVE images built and maintained by Bitnami. Bitnami Secure Images are based on the cloud-optimized, security-hardened enterprise OS Photon Linux. Why choose BSI images?

• Hardened secure images of popular open source software with Near-Zero Vulnerabilities
• Vulnerability Triage & Prioritization with VEX Statements, KEV and EPSS Scores
• Compliance focus with FIPS, STIG, and air-gap options, including secure bill of materials (SBOM)
• Software supply chain provenance attestation through in-toto
• First class support for the internet’s favorite Helm charts

Each image comes with valuable security metadata. You can view the metadata in our public catalog here. Note: Some data is only available with commercial subscriptions to BSI.

If you are looking for our previous generation of images based on Debian Linux, please see the Bitnami Legacy registry.

How to deploy Etcd in Kubernetes?

Deploying Bitnami applications as Helm Charts is the easiest way to get started with our applications on Kubernetes. Read more about the installation in the Bitnami Etcd Chart GitHub repository.

Why use a non-root container?

Non-root container images add an extra layer of security and are generally recommended for production environments. However, because they run as a non-root user, privileged tasks are typically off-limits. Learn more about non-root containers in our docs.

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

Learn more about the Bitnami tagging policy and the difference between rolling tags and immutable tags in our documentation page.

Please note ARM support in branch 3.4 is experimental/unstable according to upstream docs, therefore branch 3.4 is only supported for AMD archs while branch 3.5 supports multiarch (AMD and ARM)

Get this image

The recommended way to get the Bitnami Etcd Docker Image is to pull the prebuilt image from the Docker Hub Registry.

docker pull bitnami/etcd:latest

To use a specific version, you can pull a versioned tag. You can view the list of available versions in the Docker Hub Registry.

docker pull bitnami/etcd:[TAG]

If you wish, you can also build the image yourself by cloning the repository, changing to the directory containing the Dockerfile and executing the docker build command. Remember to replace the APP, VERSION and OPERATING-SYSTEM path placeholders in the example command below with the correct values.

git clone https://github.com/bitnami/containers.git
cd bitnami/APP/VERSION/OPERATING-SYSTEM
docker build -t bitnami/APP:latest .

Using docker-compose.yaml

Please be aware this file has not undergone internal testing. Consequently, we advise its use exclusively for development or testing purposes. For production-ready deployments, we highly recommend utilizing its associated Bitnami Helm chart.

Connecting to other containers

Using Docker container networking, a Etcd server running inside a container can easily be accessed by your application containers using a Etcd client.

Containers attached to the same network can communicate with each other using the container name as the hostname.

Configuration

The following section describes the supported environment variables

Environment variables

Apart from providing your custom configuration file, you can also modify the server behavior via configuration as environment variables.

Customizable environment variables

Name	Description	Default Value
ETCD_SNAPSHOTS_DIR	etcd snaphots directory (used on "disaster recovery" feature).	/snapshots
ETCD_SNAPSHOT_HISTORY_LIMIT	etcd snaphots history limit.	1
ETCD_INIT_SNAPSHOTS_DIR	etcd init snaphots directory (used on "init from snapshot" feature).	/init-snapshot
ALLOW_NONE_AUTHENTICATION	Allow accessing etcd without any password.	no
ETCD_ROOT_PASSWORD	Password for the etcd root user.	nil
ETCD_CLUSTER_DOMAIN	Domain to use to discover other etcd members.	nil
ETCD_START_FROM_SNAPSHOT	Whether etcd should start from an existing snapshot or not.	no
ETCD_DISASTER_RECOVERY	Whether etcd should try or not to recover from snapshots when the cluste disastrously fails.	no
ETCD_ON_K8S	Whether etcd is running on a K8s environment or not.	no
ETCD_INIT_SNAPSHOT_FILENAME	Existing snapshot filename to start the etcd cluster from.	nil
ETCD_PREUPGRADE_START_DELAY	Optional delay before starting the pre-upgrade hook (in seconds).	nil
ETCD_NAME	etcd member name.	nil
ETCD_LOG_LEVEL	etcd log level.	info
ETCD_LISTEN_CLIENT_URLS	List of URLs to listen on for client traffic.	http://0.0.0.0:2379
ETCD_ADVERTISE_CLIENT_URLS	List of this member client URLs to advertise to the rest of the cluster.	http://127.0.0.1:2379
ETCD_INITIAL_CLUSTER	Initial list of members to bootstrap a cluster.	nil
ETCD_LISTEN_PEER_URLS	List of URLs to listen on for peers traffic.	nil
ETCD_INITIAL_ADVERTISE_PEER_URLS	List of this member peer URLs to advertise to the rest of the cluster while bootstrapping.	nil
ETCD_INITIAL_CLUSTER_TOKEN	Unique initial cluster token used for bootstrapping.	nil
ETCD_AUTO_TLS	Use generated certificates for TLS communications with clients.	false
ETCD_CERT_FILE	Path to the client server TLS cert file.	nil
ETCD_KEY_FILE	Path to the client server TLS key file.	nil
ETCD_TRUSTED_CA_FILE	Path to the client server TLS trusted CA cert file.	nil
ETCD_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH	Enable client cert authentication	false
ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS	Use generated certificates for TLS communications with peers.	false
ETCD_EXTRA_AUTH_FLAGS	Comma separated list of authentication flags to append to etcdctl	nil

Read-only environment variables

Name	Description	Value
ETCD_BASE_DIR	etcd installation directory.	/opt/bitnami/etcd
ETCD_VOLUME_DIR	Persistence base directory.	/bitnami/etcd
ETCD_BIN_DIR	etcd executables directory.	${ETCD_BASE_DIR}/bin
ETCD_DATA_DIR	etcd data directory.	${ETCD_VOLUME_DIR}/data
ETCD_CONF_DIR	etcd configuration directory.	${ETCD_BASE_DIR}/conf
ETCD_DEFAULT_CONF_DIR	etcd default configuration directory.	${ETCD_BASE_DIR}/conf.default
ETCD_TMP_DIR	Directory where ETCD temporary files are stored.	${ETCD_BASE_DIR}/tmp
ETCD_CONF_FILE	ETCD configuration file.	${ETCD_CONF_DIR}/etcd.yaml
ETCD_NEW_MEMBERS_ENV_FILE	File containining the etcd environment to use after adding a member.	${ETCD_DATA_DIR}/new_member_envs
ETCD_DAEMON_USER	etcd system user name.	etcd
ETCD_DAEMON_GROUP	etcd system user group.	etcd

Additionally, you can configure etcd using the upstream env variables here

Configuration file

The configuration can easily be setup by mounting your own configuration file on the directory /opt/bitnami/etcd/conf:

You can find a sample configuration file on this link

FIPS configuration in Bitnami Secure Images

The Bitnami Etcd Docker image from the Bitnami Secure Images catalog includes extra features and settings to configure the container with FIPS capabilities. You can configure the next environment variables:

• OPENSSL_FIPS: whether OpenSSL runs in FIPS mode or not. yes (default), no.
• GODEBUG: controls Go FIPS mode. Use fips140=only (restricted), fips140=on (relaxed), or fips140=off (disabled).

Notable Changes

3.5.17-debian-12-r4

• Drop support for non-Helm cluster deployment. Upgrading of any kind including increasing replica count must also be done with helm upgrade exclusively. CD automation tools that respect Helm hooks such as ArgoCD can also be used.
• Remove prestop.sh script. Hence, container should no longer define lifecycle prestop hook.
• Add preupgrade.sh script which should be run as a pre-upgrade Helm hook. This replaces the prestop hook as a more reliable mechanism to remove stale members when replica count is decreased.
• Stop storing member ID in a local file which is unreliable. The container now check the member ID from the data dir instead.
• Stop storing/checking for member removal from a local file. The container now check with other members in the cluster instead.

3.4.15-debian-10-r7

• The container now contains the needed logic to deploy the Etcd container on Kubernetes using the Bitnami Etcd Chart.

3.4.13-debian-10-r7

• Arbitrary user ID(s) are supported again, see https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/12158 for more information abut the changes in the upstream source code

3.4.10-debian-10-r0

• Arbitrary user ID(s) when running the container with a non-privileged user are not supported (only 1001 UID is allowed).

Further documentation

For further documentation, please check Etcd documentation or its GitHub repository

License

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