How-to guides

Key settings and common tasks for deploying and operating Charmed etcd.

Deployment and configuration

Essential operations to configure a new charmed etcd deployment:

• Scale horizontally
• Tune etcd settings

Migrate an existing etcd cluster to a charmed cluster:

• Migrate to charmed etcd

Upgrade the charm:

• Refresh (upgrade)

Security and network

Learn how to manage user credentials through integrations and Juju secrets:

• Integrate with an application
• Manage passwords

Configure a secure transport layer for peer-to-peer and client-server communication by integrating with a TLS operator:

• TLS encryption
  • Enable TLS
  • Disable TLS
  • Manage private keys

Backups and storage

• Back up and restore
  • Configure object storage provider
  • Create backup
  • Restore backup
  • Migrate an etcd cluster
• Manage persistent storage

Troubleshooting

• Enable monitoring
  • Deploy COS
  • Offer interfaces from the COS model
  • Consume offers on the etcd model
  • Deploy grafana-agent
  • Access the Grafana dashboard
  • Access the etcd dashboard
  • Metrics collected by the Grafana agent
  • Default alerts for the etcd charm
• Disaster recovery
  • Detect majority failure
  • Recover from majority failure