We’re excited to share the updated etcd Project Journey Report! etcd is one of CNCF’s longest-standing graduated projects. We initially looked at the project’s growth back in 2021, and are happy to see continued growth in innovation from old and new contributors and end users.
etcd is a key-value store for distributed systems that provides a way for applications of any complexity — from simple web applications to large software platforms — to store and access critical data. It is the primary datastore for CNCF’s highest open source velocity project, Kubernetes.
etcd was accepted into the CNCF Incubator in 2018, where it remained for two years before graduating in November 2020. It has demonstrated steady and impressive growth since joining CNCF in 2018.
Some of the highlights of the report include:
- Contributor diversity: The total number of contributing companies has increased by 75% since etcd joined CNCF, rising from 499 to 873. This corresponds to a rise in individual contributors 143% from 2,328 to 5,667. All time contributions to etcd now total over 168,800, up 127% from 74,327 in 2018.
- Production adoption: etcd has been adopted by organizations across the globe, including leaders in financial services, technology, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, and others, such as Fidelity Investments, Ant Financial, and Huawei.
- Community knowledge-sharing: etcd has been the subject of 38 keynotes, talks, sessions, meetings, and workshops at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events across the globe, attended by tens of thousands each year.
Have a look at the full updated etcd Project Journey Report to learn more about these accomplishments in more detail.