etcd-io__etcd/Documentation/development-tools.md

Development tools

Vagrant

For fast start you can use Vagrant. vagrant up will make etcd build and running on virtual machine. Required Vagrant version is 1.5.0.

Next lets set a single key and then retrieve it:

curl -L http://127.0.0.1:4001/v2/keys/mykey -XPUT -d value="this is awesome"
curl -L http://127.0.0.1:4001/v2/keys/mykey