https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166312
--- Comment #1 from Eric Paris eparis@redhat.com --- etcd (at least 0.4) has a config file. /etc/etcd/etcd.conf
Which is sourced and used by etcd itself.
This might go away in 0.5 or 0.6, in which case we will look to support the model you describe. But right now, I don't see a bug here.