There's lots of software you might operate that requires zookeeper: kafka, solrcloud, the hadoop ecosystem, etc. Meanwhile, consul has lots of functionality bu

There's lots of software you might operate that requires zookeeper: kafka, solrcloud, the hadoop ecosystem, etc. Meanwhile, consul has lots of functionality built in that makes it a snap to use for service discovery within your existing infrastructure. You would have to build all this yourself on top of zookeeper, which just provides a distributed, consistent key-value store. So it's easy to see why you could end up with both. https://www.consul.io/intro/vs/zookeeper.html https://www.consul.io/intro/vs/zookeeper.html