Destruction and Rebirth: Deep Dive into ETCD Backup and Restore for Kubernetes Clusters
This article walks through a real‑world ETCD failure, explains why ETCD is the control‑plane brain, details the three‑layer ETCD architecture, exposes common backup pitfalls, and provides a production‑grade backup‑restore workflow—including snapshot API usage, Go implementation, verification steps, and post‑restore validation—for reliable Kubernetes disaster recovery.
