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Yeah, for real. etcd is one of the biggest limitations to Kubernetes in my opinion. I would love to have a region-agnostic Kubernetes cluster.

• OrangeDelonge 3mo ago
  I think all big cloud providers replaced etcd with a custom in house implementation in their K8s offerings for this reason
  • esseph 3mo ago
    > I think all big cloud providers replaced etcd with a custom in house implementation in their K8s offerings for this reason This is incorrect. AWS, Azure, GCP still use etcd in their customer kubernetes services. "EKS Ultra Scale" uses an in-house Journal
    • esprehn 3mo ago
      GKE uses spanner (with an etcd API layer) per the docs. https://docs.cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/cluster-architecture#cluster-state-database https://docs.cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concept... https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-65k-nodes-and-counting https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes...
      • esseph 3mo ago
        TIL!