(Opinions are my own) Chubby is a lot like etcd except without the hindsight. Distributed locking is pretty complicated and if I remember correctly there was a

(Opinions are my own) Chubby is a lot like etcd except without the hindsight. Distributed locking is pretty complicated and if I remember correctly there was a great podcast from Google's Kube podcast about distributed locking that goes into a lot of this. [0] If you are going to do any distributed locking I strongly recommend listening to it. Has a lot of pain points discussed. [0] - https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/123-leader-election/ https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/123-leader-election/