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+# Etcd Administration Tasks
+
+## Backups
+
+Backups and restores of etcd on kops are covered in [etcd_backup_restore_encryption.md](etcd_backup_restore_encryption.md)
+
+## Direct Data Access
+
+It's not typically necessary to view or manipulate the data inside of etcd directly with etcdctl, because all operations usually go through kubectl commands. However, it can be informative during troubleshooting, or just to understand kubernetes better. Here are the steps to accomplish that on kops.
+
+1\. Connect to an etcd-manager pod
+
+```bash
+CONTAINER=$(kubectl get pods -n kube-system | grep etcd-manager-main | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}')
+kubectl exec -it -n kube-system $CONTAINER bash
+```
+
+2\. Determine which version of etcd is running
+
+```bash
+DIRNAME=$(ps -ef | grep --color=never /opt/etcd | head -n 1 | awk '{print $8}' | xargs dirname)
+echo $DIRNAME
+```
+
+3\. Run etcdctl
+
+```bash
+ETCDCTL_API=3 $DIRNAME/etcdctl --cacert=/rootfs/etc/kubernetes/pki/kube-apiserver/etcd-ca.crt --cert=/rootfs/etc/kubernetes/pki/kube-apiserver/etcd-client.crt --key=/rootfs/etc/kubernetes/pki/kube-apiserver/etcd-client.key --endpoints=https://127.0.0.1:4001 get --prefix / | tee output.txt
+```
+
+The contents of etcd are now in output.txt. 
+
+You may run any other etcdctl commands by replacing the "get --prefix /" with a different command.
+
+The contents of the etcd dump are often garbled. See the next section for a better way to view the results.
+
+## Dump etcd contents in clear text
+
+Openshift's etcdhelper is a good way of exporting the contents of etcd in a readable format. Here are the steps.
+
+1\. SSH into a master node
+
+You can view the IP addresses of the nodes
+
+```
+kubectl get nodes -o wide
+```
+
+and then
+
+```
+ssh admin@<IP-of-master-node>
+```
+
+2\. Install golang
+
+in whatever manner you prefer. Here is one example.
+
+```
+cd /usr/local
+sudo wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.13.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
+sudo tar -xvf go1.13.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
+cat <<EOT >> $HOME/.profile
+export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
+export GOPATH=\$HOME/go
+export PATH=\$GOPATH/bin:\$GOROOT/bin:\$PATH
+EOT
+source $HOME/.profile
+which go
+```
+
+3\. Install etcdhelper
+
+```
+mkdir -p ~/go/src/github.com/
+cd ~/go/src/github.com/
+git clone https://github.com/openshift/origin openshift
+cd openshift/tools/etcdhelper
+go build .
+sudo cp etcdhelper /usr/local/bin/etcdhelper
+which etcdhelper
+```
+
+4\. Run etcdhelper
+
+```
+sudo etcdhelper -key /etc/kubernetes/pki/kube-apiserver/etcd-client.key -cert /etc/kubernetes/pki/kube-apiserver/etcd-client.crt  -cacert /etc/kubernetes/pki/kube-apiserver/etcd-ca.crt -endpoint https://127.0.0.1:4001 dump | tee output.txt
+```
+
+The output of the command is now available in output.txt
+
+Other etcdhelper commands are possible, like "ls":
+
+```
+sudo etcdhelper -key /etc/kubernetes/pki/kube-apiserver/etcd-client.key -cert /etc/kubernetes/pki/kube-apiserver/etcd-client.crt  -cacert /etc/kubernetes/pki/kube-apiserver/etcd-ca.crt -endpoint https://127.0.0.1:4001 ls
+```
+
diff --git a/mkdocs.yml b/mkdocs.yml
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@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ nav:
     - Moving from a Single Master to Multiple HA Masters: "single-to-multi-master.md"
     - Working with Instance Groups: "tutorial/working-with-instancegroups.md"
     - Running kops in a CI environment: "continuous_integration.md"
+    - etcd administration: "operations/etcd_administration.md"
   - Networking:
     - Networking Overview including CNI: "networking.md"
     - Run kops in an existing VPC: "run_in_existing_vpc.md"