bitnami-containers/bitnami/etcd

Bitnami package for Etcd

What is Etcd?

etcd is a distributed key-value store designed to securely store data across a cluster. etcd is widely used in production on account of its reliability, fault-tolerance and ease of use.

Overview of Etcd Trademarks: This software listing is packaged by Bitnami. The respective trademarks mentioned in the offering are owned by the respective companies, and use of them does not imply any affiliation or endorsement.

TL;DR

docker run -it --name etcd bitnami/etcd:latest

⚠️ Important Notice: Upcoming changes to the Bitnami Catalog

Beginning August 28th, 2025, Bitnami will evolve its public catalog to offer a curated set of hardened, security-focused images under the new Bitnami Secure Images initiative. As part of this transition:

• Granting community users access for the first time to security-optimized versions of popular container images.
• Bitnami will begin deprecating support for non-hardened, Debian-based software images in its free tier and will gradually remove non-latest tags from the public catalog. As a result, community users will have access to a reduced number of hardened images. These images are published only under the “latest” tag and are intended for development purposes
• Starting August 28th, over two weeks, all existing container images, including older or versioned tags (e.g., 2.50.0, 10.6), will be migrated from the public catalog (docker.io/bitnami) to the “Bitnami Legacy” repository (docker.io/bitnamilegacy), where they will no longer receive updates.
• For production workloads and long-term support, users are encouraged to adopt Bitnami Secure Images, which include hardened containers, smaller attack surfaces, CVE transparency (via VEX/KEV), SBOMs, and enterprise support.

These changes aim to improve the security posture of all Bitnami users by promoting best practices for software supply chain integrity and up-to-date deployments. For more details, visit the Bitnami Secure Images announcement.

Why use Bitnami Secure Images?

• Bitnami Secure Images and Helm charts are built to make open source more secure and enterprise ready.
• Triage security vulnerabilities faster, with transparency into CVE risks using industry standard Vulnerability Exploitability Exchange (VEX), KEV, and EPSS scores.
• Our hardened images use a minimal OS (Photon Linux), which reduces the attack surface while maintaining extensibility through the use of an industry standard package format.
• Stay more secure and compliant with continuously built images updated within hours of upstream patches.
• Bitnami containers, virtual machines and cloud images use the same components and configuration approach - making it easy to switch between formats based on your project needs.
• Hardened images come with attestation signatures (Notation), SBOMs, virus scan reports and other metadata produced in an SLSA-3 compliant software factory.

Only a subset of BSI applications are available for free. Looking to access the entire catalog of applications as well as enterprise support? Try the commercial edition of Bitnami Secure Images today.

How to deploy Etcd in Kubernetes?

Deploying Bitnami applications as Helm Charts is the easiest way to get started with our applications on Kubernetes. Read more about the installation in the Bitnami Etcd Chart GitHub repository.

Why use a non-root container?

Non-root container images add an extra layer of security and are generally recommended for production environments. However, because they run as a non-root user, privileged tasks are typically off-limits. Learn more about non-root containers in our docs.

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

Learn more about the Bitnami tagging policy and the difference between rolling tags and immutable tags in our documentation page.

You can see the equivalence between the different tags by taking a look at the tags-info.yaml file present in the branch folder, i.e bitnami/ASSET/BRANCH/DISTRO/tags-info.yaml.

Subscribe to project updates by watching the bitnami/containers GitHub repo.

Please note ARM support in branch 3.4 is experimental/unstable according to upstream docs, therefore branch 3.4 is only supported for AMD archs while branch 3.5 supports multiarch (AMD and ARM)

Prerequisites

To run this application you need Docker Engine >= 1.10.0. Docker Compose is recommended with a version 1.6.0 or later.

Get this image

The recommended way to get the Bitnami Etcd Docker Image is to pull the prebuilt image from the Docker Hub Registry.

docker pull bitnami/etcd:latest

To use a specific version, you can pull a versioned tag. You can view the list of available versions in the Docker Hub Registry.

docker pull bitnami/etcd:[TAG]

If you wish, you can also build the image yourself by cloning the repository, changing to the directory containing the Dockerfile and executing the docker build command. Remember to replace the APP, VERSION and OPERATING-SYSTEM path placeholders in the example command below with the correct values.

git clone https://github.com/bitnami/containers.git
cd bitnami/APP/VERSION/OPERATING-SYSTEM
docker build -t bitnami/APP:latest .

Connecting to other containers

Using Docker container networking, a Etcd server running inside a container can easily be accessed by your application containers using a Etcd client.

Containers attached to the same network can communicate with each other using the container name as the hostname.

Using the Command Line

In this example, we will create a Etcd client instance that will connect to the server instance that is running on the same docker network as the client.

Step 1: Create a network

docker network create app-tier --driver bridge

Step 2: Launch the Etcd server instance

Use the --network app-tier argument to the docker run command to attach the Etcd container to the app-tier network.

docker run -d --name Etcd-server \
    --network app-tier \
    --publish 2379:2379 \
    --publish 2380:2380 \
    --env ALLOW_NONE_AUTHENTICATION=yes \
    --env ETCD_ADVERTISE_CLIENT_URLS=http://etcd-server:2379 \
    bitnami/etcd:latest

Step 3: Launch your Etcd client instance

Finally we create a new container instance to launch the Etcd client and connect to the server created in the previous step:

docker run -it --rm \
    --network app-tier \
    --env ALLOW_NONE_AUTHENTICATION=yes \
    bitnami/etcd:latest etcdctl --endpoints http://etcd-server:2379 put /message Hello

Using a Docker Compose file

When not specified, Docker Compose automatically sets up a new network and attaches all deployed services to that network. However, we will explicitly define a new bridge network named app-tier. In this example we assume that you want to connect to the Etcd server from your own custom application image which is identified in the following snippet by the service name myapp.

version: '2'

networks:
  app-tier:
    driver: bridge

services:
  Etcd:
    image: bitnami/etcd:latest
    environment:
      - ALLOW_NONE_AUTHENTICATION=yes
      - ETCD_ADVERTISE_CLIENT_URLS=http://etcd:2379
    ports:
      - 2379:2379
      - 2380:2380
    networks:
      - app-tier
  myapp:
    image: YOUR_APPLICATION_IMAGE
    networks:
      - app-tier

IMPORTANT:

1. Please update the placeholder YOUR_APPLICATION_IMAGE in the above snippet with your application image
2. In your application container, use the hostname etcd to connect to the Etcd server

Launch the containers using:

docker-compose up -d

Configuration

The configuration can easily be setup by mounting your own configuration file on the directory /opt/bitnami/etcd/conf:

docker run --name Etcd -v /path/to/Etcd.conf.yml:/opt/bitnami/Etcd/conf/etcd.conf.yml bitnami/etcd:latest

After that, your configuration will be taken into account in the server's behaviour.

You can also do this by changing the docker-compose.yml file present in this repository:

Etcd:
  ...
  volumes:
    - /path/to/Etcd.conf.yml:/opt/bitnami/etcd/conf/etcd.conf.yml
  ...

You can find a sample configuration file on this link

Environment variables

Apart from providing your custom configuration file, you can also modify the server behavior via configuration as environment variables.

Customizable environment variables

Name	Description	Default Value
ETCD_SNAPSHOTS_DIR	etcd snaphots directory (used on "disaster recovery" feature).	/snapshots
ETCD_SNAPSHOT_HISTORY_LIMIT	etcd snaphots history limit.	1
ETCD_INIT_SNAPSHOTS_DIR	etcd init snaphots directory (used on "init from snapshot" feature).	/init-snapshot
ALLOW_NONE_AUTHENTICATION	Allow accessing etcd without any password.	no
ETCD_ROOT_PASSWORD	Password for the etcd root user.	nil
ETCD_CLUSTER_DOMAIN	Domain to use to discover other etcd members.	nil
ETCD_START_FROM_SNAPSHOT	Whether etcd should start from an existing snapshot or not.	no
ETCD_DISASTER_RECOVERY	Whether etcd should try or not to recover from snapshots when the cluste disastrously fails.	no
ETCD_ON_K8S	Whether etcd is running on a K8s environment or not.	no
ETCD_INIT_SNAPSHOT_FILENAME	Existing snapshot filename to start the etcd cluster from.	nil
ETCD_PREUPGRADE_START_DELAY	Optional delay before starting the pre-upgrade hook (in seconds).	nil
ETCD_NAME	etcd member name.	nil
ETCD_LOG_LEVEL	etcd log level.	info
ETCD_LISTEN_CLIENT_URLS	List of URLs to listen on for client traffic.	http://0.0.0.0:2379
ETCD_ADVERTISE_CLIENT_URLS	List of this member client URLs to advertise to the rest of the cluster.	http://127.0.0.1:2379
ETCD_INITIAL_CLUSTER	Initial list of members to bootstrap a cluster.	nil
ETCD_LISTEN_PEER_URLS	List of URLs to listen on for peers traffic.	nil
ETCD_INITIAL_ADVERTISE_PEER_URLS	List of this member peer URLs to advertise to the rest of the cluster while bootstrapping.	nil
ETCD_INITIAL_CLUSTER_TOKEN	Unique initial cluster token used for bootstrapping.	nil
ETCD_AUTO_TLS	Use generated certificates for TLS communications with clients.	false
ETCD_CERT_FILE	Path to the client server TLS cert file.	nil
ETCD_KEY_FILE	Path to the client server TLS key file.	nil
ETCD_TRUSTED_CA_FILE	Path to the client server TLS trusted CA cert file.	nil
ETCD_CLIENT_CERT_AUTH	Enable client cert authentication	false
ETCD_PEER_AUTO_TLS	Use generated certificates for TLS communications with peers.	false
ETCD_EXTRA_AUTH_FLAGS	Comma separated list of authentication flags to append to etcdctl	nil

Read-only environment variables

Name	Description	Value
ETCD_BASE_DIR	etcd installation directory.	/opt/bitnami/etcd
ETCD_VOLUME_DIR	Persistence base directory.	/bitnami/etcd
ETCD_BIN_DIR	etcd executables directory.	${ETCD_BASE_DIR}/bin
ETCD_DATA_DIR	etcd data directory.	${ETCD_VOLUME_DIR}/data
ETCD_CONF_DIR	etcd configuration directory.	${ETCD_BASE_DIR}/conf
ETCD_DEFAULT_CONF_DIR	etcd default configuration directory.	${ETCD_BASE_DIR}/conf.default
ETCD_TMP_DIR	Directory where ETCD temporary files are stored.	${ETCD_BASE_DIR}/tmp
ETCD_CONF_FILE	ETCD configuration file.	${ETCD_CONF_DIR}/etcd.yaml
ETCD_NEW_MEMBERS_ENV_FILE	File containining the etcd environment to use after adding a member.	${ETCD_DATA_DIR}/new_member_envs
ETCD_DAEMON_USER	etcd system user name.	etcd
ETCD_DAEMON_GROUP	etcd system user group.	etcd

Additionally, you can configure etcd using the upstream env variables here

Notable Changes

3.5.17-debian-12-r4

• Drop support for non-Helm cluster deployment. Upgrading of any kind including increasing replica count must also be done with helm upgrade exclusively. CD automation tools that respect Helm hooks such as ArgoCD can also be used.
• Remove prestop.sh script. Hence, container should no longer define lifecycle prestop hook.
• Add preupgrade.sh script which should be run as a pre-upgrade Helm hook. This replaces the prestop hook as a more reliable mechanism to remove stale members when replica count is decreased.
• Stop storing member ID in a local file which is unreliable. The container now check the member ID from the data dir instead.
• Stop storing/checking for member removal from a local file. The container now check with other members in the cluster instead.

3.4.15-debian-10-r7

• The container now contains the needed logic to deploy the Etcd container on Kubernetes using the Bitnami Etcd Chart.

3.4.13-debian-10-r7

• Arbitrary user ID(s) are supported again, see https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/12158 for more information abut the changes in the upstream source code

3.4.10-debian-10-r0

• Arbitrary user ID(s) when running the container with a non-privileged user are not supported (only 1001 UID is allowed).

Further documentation

For further documentation, please check Etcd documentation or its GitHub repository

Using docker-compose.yaml

Please be aware this file has not undergone internal testing. Consequently, we advise its use exclusively for development or testing purposes. For production-ready deployments, we highly recommend utilizing its associated Bitnami Helm chart.

If you detect any issue in the docker-compose.yaml file, feel free to report it or contribute with a fix by following our Contributing Guidelines.

Contributing

We'd love for you to contribute to this container. You can request new features by creating an issue or submitting a pull request with your contribution.

Issues

If you encountered a problem running this container, you can file an issue. For us to provide better support, be sure to fill the issue template.

License

Copyright © 2025 Broadcom. The term "Broadcom" refers to Broadcom Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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