Consul, a new tool for service discovery and configuration
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Re: Consul, a new tool for service discovery and configuration
#2Registered services and nodes can be queried using both a DNS interface as well as an HTTP interface.
This is very cool. Integrating with a name resolution protocol that every existing programmer and stack knows how to use (often without even thinking about it) should lead to some magical "just works" moments.
Re: Consul, a new tool for service discovery and configuration
#3How does this differ from http://www.serfdom.io/, another HashiCorp product?
Re: Consul, a new tool for service discovery and configuration
#4Seriously, who does design for HashiCorp? Their site designs, though similar, always kill it.
Re: Consul, a new tool for service discovery and configuration
#5How does this differ from http://www.serfdom.io/ , another HashiCorp product?
Re: Consul, a new tool for service discovery and configuration
#6Seriously, who does design for HashiCorp? Their site designs, though similar, always kill it.
Agreed! I also appreciate that they tend to drop with robust documentation pages already in place.
Re: Consul, a new tool for service discovery and configuration
#7Seriously, who does design for HashiCorp? Their site designs, though similar, always kill it.
Agreed! I also appreciate that they tend to drop with robust documentation pages already in place.
Yep. I'm kind of amazed at the level polish in their initial releases given that HashiCorp is what, 3 people? And they're up to 4 products now with Serf being released just 6 months ago and Packer not long before that.
Re: Consul, a new tool for service discovery and configuration
#8Those guys are machines.
Usually when people release open source software, the documentation is lacking, there's no website etc... those guys absolutely nail it every single time.
Kudos for them, really!
Re: Consul, a new tool for service discovery and configuration
#9Can anyone care to provide some real world examples? I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around what this exactly does.
Re: Consul, a new tool for service discovery and configuration
#10This is slightly off topic but I'm curious why none of the service discovery tools run off of something like Cassanandra as the datastore?