In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of etcd, a distributed, reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system.
Before we begin, ensure that you have the following prerequisites:
First, we need to download the etcd files from the GitHub repository. You can clone the repository using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/coreos/etcd.git
etcd is written in Go, so we need to install Go on our system. You can download and install the latest version of Go using the following command:
pkg install go
Once Go is installed, we need to build the etcd binary. Navigate to the downloaded etcd repository directory then run the following command:
GOARCH=amd64 ./build
This command will build the binary for the amd64 architecture. You can replace amd64 with your system architecture if it's different.
After building the binary, you can install it using the following command:
cp ./bin/* /usr/local/bin/
With etcd installed, we can start the service using the following command:
etcd
Alternatively, you can start etcd as a daemon by running the following command:
etcd --daemon
To verify that etcd is installed and running correctly, you can use the etcdctl command-line tool. You can install it using the following command:
go get go.etcd.io/etcd/clientv3
Once etcdctl is installed, you can test it by running the following command:
etcdctl put mykey myvalue
etcdctl get mykey
If the output shows "myvalue," then everything is working as expected.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed etcd on your FreeBSD Latest system. You can now use etcd to store and retrieve data in a distributed system.
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