Installing etcd on OpenSUSE Latest

etcd is a distributed key-value store that provides a reliable way to store data across a cluster of machines. In this tutorial, we will walk through the process of installing etcd on OpenSUSE latest using GitHub.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, you will need:

• An OpenSUSE latest instance with sudo access
• Basic knowledge of working with the terminal

Step 1: Install Go

etcd is written in Go, so you will need to install Go on your system before you can compile the source code.

1. First, update the package manager on your system:

sudo zypper update

2. Next, install Go using the following command:

sudo zypper install go

Step 2: Download etcd Source Code

1. Create a new directory to hold the etcd source code:

mkdir ~/etcd

2. Navigate to the directory you just created:

cd ~/etcd

3. Clone the etcd repository using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/coreos/etcd

Step 3: Build etcd

1. Navigate to the etcd directory using the following command:

cd ~/etcd/etcd

2. Next, build etcd using the following command:

./build

Step 4: Copy Binary to /usr/local/bin

1. Copy the etcd binary file to the /usr/local/bin directory using the following command:

sudo cp ~/etcd/etcd/bin/etcd /usr/local/bin

2. Copy the etcdctl binary file to the /usr/local/bin directory using the following command:

sudo cp ~/etcd/etcd/bin/etcdctl /usr/local/bin

Step 5: Start etcd

1. Start etcd by running the following command in your terminal:

etcd

2. Verify that etcd is running using the following command:

sudo etcdctl cluster-health

You should now see that etcd is up and running on your OpenSUSE latest instance.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have walked through the process of installing etcd on OpenSUSE latest using GitHub. Now you can use etcd to store your data across a cluster of machines!