Over the last one and a half month we were working on ETCD bootstrapping in GlusterD 2.0 and I am happy to share that now we have a working code (one patch is still not merged into the repo) where peer probe/detach works and that internally uses ETCD for managing the cluster. The current model manages ETCD internally, however as Kaushal highlighted in another mail [1] that we'd also need to come up with a way to integrate ETCD managed externally along with TLS ETCD cluster. Also we'd be working on coming with a toggling option to convert an ETCD server to proxy and vice versa. I've written up a blog [2] and captured a short demo session [3]. Please feel free to add your comments/suggestions on this thread. [1] http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-March/048755.html [2] https://atinmu.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/etcd-bootstrapping-in-glusterd2-0/ [3] https://bluejeans.com/s/9hD3/ Thanks, Atin