Name: From Fragile To Self-Healing: Operationalizing Etcd at Scale - Shreyas Rao & Ishan Tyagi, SAP Labs
Start: 2026-10-08T10:50:00+0200
End: 2026-10-08T11:30:00+0200

7-9 October, 2026
Prague, Czechia
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From Fragile To Self-Healing: Operationalizing Etcd at Scale - Shreyas Rao & Ishan Tyagi, SAP Labs

Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST

Small Hall (Floor 0)

Running etcd across thousands of production Kubernetes clusters reveals critical failures: data corruption, quorum loss, member failures, and storage bloat, all capable of disrupting clusters. Managing these manually is complex, error-prone, and difficult to scale.

In this talk, we will be sharing lessons from 8+ years of operating production-grade etcd at scale with close to zero manual intervention and how we built etcd-backup-restore to reliably automate tasks like scheduled backups, corruption detection, quorum loss recovery, member replacement, and scheduled defragmentation, with zero recorded data loss across thousands of clusters.

Used in production by SAP Gardener, Akamai Cloud, StackIT, and Scaleway, etcd-backup-restore is now a Linux Foundation project under Linux Foundation EU via the NeoNephos Foundation, with an active maintainer community. We'll show what it takes to run etcd reliably at scale, and make it truly self-healing.

Speakers

Shreyas Rao

Senior Software Engineer, SAP Labs

Shreyas Rao is a Senior Software Engineer at SAP Labs, working on Project Gardener. He is currently a maintainer of the open source Gardener project, and the original author of `etcd-druid`, the Kubernetes operator that manages the lifecycle of every etcd cluster in Gardener's fleet... Read More →

Ishan Tyagi

Senior Developer, SAP Labs, Bangalore

I am associated with SAP Labs India in Gardener Team & involved in the development of etcd-backup-restore and etcd-druid.
I specialise in working with Cloud native technologies and distributed database.
I love designing systems, solve problems and find easy and better solutions to solve them. I like to learn about the world behind the screen which involves system designs, cloud, virtualisation, databases, servers, and also promising technologies... Read More →

Thursday October 8, 2026 10:50 - 11:30 CEST
Small Hall (Floor 0)

Cloud & Orchestration

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Shreyas Rao

Ishan Tyagi

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