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Interested in the proprietary backend part. What is proprietary?

• 0xbadcafebee 4y ago
  "Proprietary" was bad wording, technically other people can use etcd... I mean to say inflexible & incompatible. Someone suggested supporting Consul 8 years ago (nearly functionally equivalent to Etcd), was requested for years by like a thousand people, never happened. Somebody even submitted a PR I think, but it was quashed. I/O should have been abstracted at the very beginning as loosely-coupled pluggable layers.
  • pm90 4y ago
    Generally when you make claims like this, giving proof (eg PR for contributing consul support that was quashed) makes the claim stronger. I looked it up and this seems to be the PR https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31622 https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31622. Reading through the discussion, it doesn’t look like it was quashed; the project owners had a reasoned debate about the pros/cons of what would happen if such a support was included at the time and its a totally reasonable argument to me.