How to defrag etcd to decrease DB size in Red Hat OpenShift 3?

Issue

etcd DB is large, how can one defrag etcd?
Following error message can be seen from etcd pods:
```
etcdserver: mvcc: database space exceeded
```
The master API fails to start after hitting this issue.

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