> For now I prefer Zookeeper because at-least I have experienced most of it's failure modes. i.e they are probably all prone to blowing up but I have lost my ey

> For now I prefer Zookeeper because at-least I have experienced most of it's failure modes. i.e they are probably all prone to blowing up but I have lost my eyebrows enough times in ZK explosions that atleast I know what I'm up against. Consul is insanely easy to fix if you keep backups. It is as simple as deploying a brand new cluster and restoring a known good snapshot. Sadly, a surprising amount of practitioners don't keep backups.