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Service Discovery - Consul

  • Applications need to talk to each other. Especially in micro-service architectures where services are connected via network
  • Fixed IPs, load balancers or DNS can not cope

Consul is a service discovery tool

  • Services regster in a central catalog when they startup
  • Application can query this catalog via API or DNS
  • They send healthchecks to it