Lift the 8GiB etcd limit to 100GiB

ronaldngounou · ronaldngounou · commit ba37b27c76bb · 2025-10-11T02:33:13.000-07:00
https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/05/09/performance-optimization-of-etcd-in-web-scale-data-scenario/ Signed-off-by: Ronald Ngounou <ronald.ngounou@yahoo.com>
diff --git a/content/en/docs/v3.4/dev-guide/limit.md b/content/en/docs/v3.4/dev-guide/limit.md
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ etcd is designed to handle small key value pairs typical for metadata. Larger re
 
 ## Storage size limit
 
-The default storage size limit is 2 GiB, configurable with `--quota-backend-bytes` flag. 8 GiB is a suggested maximum size for normal environments and etcd warns at startup if the configured value exceeds it.
+The default storage size limit is 2 GiB, configurable with `--quota-backend-bytes` flag. 100 GiB is a suggested maximum size for normal environments and etcd warns at startup if the configured value exceeds it. Read this [blog](https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/05/09/performance-optimization-of-etcd-in-web-scale-data-scenario/) to further understand how the 100 GiB was obtained.
diff --git a/content/en/docs/v3.5/dev-guide/limit.md b/content/en/docs/v3.5/dev-guide/limit.md
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ etcd is designed to handle small key value pairs typical for metadata. Larger re
 
 ## Storage size limit
 
-The default storage size limit is 2 GiB, configurable with `--quota-backend-bytes` flag. 8 GiB is a suggested maximum size for normal environments and etcd warns at startup if the configured value exceeds it.
+The default storage size limit is 2 GiB, configurable with `--quota-backend-bytes` flag. 100 GiB is a suggested maximum size for normal environments and etcd warns at startup if the configured value exceeds it. Read this [blog](https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/05/09/performance-optimization-of-etcd-in-web-scale-data-scenario/) to further understand how the 100 GiB was obtained.
diff --git a/content/en/docs/v3.6/dev-guide/limit.md b/content/en/docs/v3.6/dev-guide/limit.md
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ etcd is designed to handle small key value pairs typical for metadata. Larger re
 
 ## Storage size limit
 
-The default storage size limit is 2 GiB, configurable with `--quota-backend-bytes` flag. 8 GiB is a suggested maximum size for normal environments and etcd warns at startup if the configured value exceeds it.
+The default storage size limit is 2 GiB, configurable with `--quota-backend-bytes` flag. 100 GiB is a suggested maximum size for normal environments and etcd warns at startup if the configured value exceeds it. Read this [blog](https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/05/09/performance-optimization-of-etcd-in-web-scale-data-scenario/) to further understand how the 100 GiB was obtained.
diff --git a/content/en/docs/v3.7/dev-guide/limit.md b/content/en/docs/v3.7/dev-guide/limit.md
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ etcd is designed to handle small key value pairs typical for metadata. Larger re
 
 ## Storage size limit
 
-The default storage size limit is 2 GiB, configurable with `--quota-backend-bytes` flag. 8 GiB is a suggested maximum size for normal environments and etcd warns at startup if the configured value exceeds it.
+The default storage size limit is 2 GiB, configurable with `--quota-backend-bytes` flag. 100 GiB is a suggested maximum size for normal environments and etcd warns at startup if the configured value exceeds it. Read this [blog](https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/05/09/performance-optimization-of-etcd-in-web-scale-data-scenario/) to further understand how the 100 GiB was obtained.

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`13`		-The default storage size limit is 2 GiB, configurable with `--quota-backend-bytes` flag. 8 GiB is a suggested maximum size for normal environments and etcd warns at startup if the configured value exceeds it.
	`13`	+The default storage size limit is 2 GiB, configurable with `--quota-backend-bytes` flag. 100 GiB is a suggested maximum size for normal environments and etcd warns at startup if the configured value exceeds it. Read this [blog](https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/05/09/performance-optimization-of-etcd-in-web-scale-data-scenario/) to further understand how the 100 GiB was obtained.