How To Use Confd and Etcd to Dynamically Reconfigure Services in CoreOS
Etcd is a globally distributed key-value store that is available in CoreOS installations. By registering services in this store, related applications can adjust their configuration based on the values available. In this guide, we will demonstrate how to configure `confd` to monitor `etcd` in order to dynamically generate an Nginx configuration. Continuous polling of `etcd` allows us to configure Nginx as a load balancer that adjusts its list of backend servers as they are started or stopped.
