github.com/macb/etcd@v0.3.1-0.20140227003422-a60481c6b1a0/mod/README.md (about) 1 ## Etcd modules 2 3 etcd modules (mods) are higher order pieces of functionality that only 4 speak to the client etcd API and are presented in the `/mod` HTTP path 5 of the etcd service. 6 7 The basic idea is that etcd can ship things like dashboards, master 8 election APIs and other helpful services that would normally have to 9 stand up and talk to an etcd cluster directly in the binary. It is a 10 convienence and hopefully eases complexity in deployments.