A Go routine is spawned which runs the etcd client's KeepAlive method to tie a session to a lease in the proxy. The code is here: https://github.com/coreos/zetc

A Go routine is spawned which runs the etcd client's KeepAlive method to tie a session to a lease in the proxy. The code is here: https://github.com/coreos/zetcd/blob/d33e3b836a2a2de8a8ec0771f5d249aa66d4bf8a/session.go#L48 https://github.com/coreos/zetcd/blob/d33e3b836a2a2de8a8ec077... Disclaimer: The person who wrote this is AFK at the moment so I might be completely wrong ;)