While I’m preparing a shell script or test some Ansible roles available at Ansible Galaxy so the installation is automatic, here I show you the steps I followed to install by hand the Etcd server on CentOS 7 as quick and fast as possible.
First of all we have to create some directories (/var/lib/etcd and /etc/etcd) and add the etcd user and group
mkdir /var/lib/etcd;mkdir /etc/etcd; groupadd -r etcd; useradd -r -g etcd -d /var/lib/etcd -s /sbin/nologin -c "etcd user" etcd;chown -R etcd:etcd /var/lib/etcd
Now we have to add a systemd service definition for our etcd service
cat << EOT > /usr/lib/systemd/system/etcd.service
[Unit]
Description=etcd service
After=network.target[Service]
Type=notify
WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/etcd/
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/etcd/etcd.conf
User=etcd
ExecStart=/usr/bin/etcd
LimitNOFILE=65536[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOT
Warning: The etcd service needs a configuration file, we install a really simple one that should be modified according to your needs, e.g add urls with your server’s IP address or DNS names so your server is not only useful for localhost and secure client requests. Read https://github.com/coreos/etcd for more info.
cat << EOT > /etc/etcd/etcd.conf # [member] ETCD_NAME=default ETCD_DATA_DIR="/var/lib/etcd/default.etcd" #ETCD_SNAPSHOT_COUNTER="10000" #ETCD_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL="100" #ETCD_ELECTION_TIMEOUT="1000" #ETCD_LISTEN_PEER_URLS="http://localhost:2380,http://localhost:7001" ETCD_LISTEN_CLIENT_URLS="http://localhost:2379" ETCD_ADVERTISE_CLIENT_URLS="http://localhost:2379" #ETCD_MAX_SNAPSHOTS="5" #ETCD_MAX_WALS="5" #ETCD_CORS="" # #[cluster] #ETCD_INITIAL_ADVERTISE_PEER_URLS="http://localhost:2380,http://localhost:7001" # if you use different ETCD_NAME (e.g. test), set ETCD_INITIAL_CLUSTER value for this name, i.e. "test=http://..." #ETCD_INITIAL_CLUSTER="default=http://localhost:2380,default=http://localhost:7001" #ETCD_INITIAL_CLUSTER_STATE="new" #ETCD_INITIAL_CLUSTER_TOKEN="etcd-cluster" #ETCD_ADVERTISE_CLIENT_URLS="http://localhost:2379,http://localhost:4001" #ETCD_DISCOVERY="" #ETCD_DISCOVERY_SRV="" #ETCD_DISCOVERY_FALLBACK="proxy" #ETCD_DISCOVERY_PROXY="" # #[proxy] #ETCD_PROXY="off" # #[security] #ETCD_CA_FILE="" #ETCD_CERT_FILE="" #ETCD_KEY_FILE="" #ETCD_PEER_CA_FILE="" #ETCD_PEER_CERT_FILE="" #ETCD_PEER_KEY_FILE="" EOT
Time to download and install etcd binaries for Linux x86_64, the following commands should be good for any Linux distro. It downloads the latest stable version available, creates a directory for any downloaded version and changes the symbolinc link accordingly. It runs etcd with the version argument to check that the binary works fine.
ETCD_VERSION=`curl -s -L https://github.com/coreos/etcd/releases/latest | grep linux-amd64\.tar\.gz | grep href | cut -f 6 -d '/' | sort -u`; ETCD_DIR=/opt/etcd-$ETCD_VERSION; mkdir $ETCD_DIR;curl -L https://github.com/coreos/etcd/releases/download/$ETCD_VERSION/etcd-$ETCD_VERSION-linux-amd64.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1 -C $ETCD_DIR; ln -sf $ETCD_DIR/etcd /usr/bin/etcd && ln -sf $ETCD_DIR/etcdctl /usr/bin/etcdctl; etcd --version
We can enable and start the etcd server with:
systemctl enable etcd; systemctl start etcd
Check etcd service status
systemctl status etcd
● etcd.service – etcd service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/etcd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since lun 2016-08-01 10:05:51 UTC; 2s ago
Main PID: 31051 (etcd)
CGroup: /system.slice/etcd.service
└─31051 /usr/bin/etcdago 01 10:05:51 localhost.localdomain etcd[31051]: ready to serve client requests
ago 01 10:05:51 localhost.localdomain etcd[31051]: serving insecure client requests on localhost:2379, this is strongly discouraged!
ago 01 10:05:51 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started etcd service.
As you may notice there’s a warning about “serving insecure client requests on localhost:2379, this is strongly discouraged!” once again please change the configuration for your needs and set it safely.
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Cheers!
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