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Etcd is really only for basic config. If you want apps to discover each other and be able to communicate effortlessly, even across datacenters, Consul, in theo
by pcthrowaway 4y ago
Etcd is really only for basic config.
If you want apps to discover each other and be able to communicate effortlessly, even across datacenters, Consul, in theory, enables this.
I say in theory because I couldn't get federated Consul actually working.
- convolvatron 4y agodiscovery isn't that hard a problem that you should cede your agency to a external party like Hashicorp I used consul for a clustered service once, it was worth it for bringup. but I when I had problems I just wrote one in a couple days since I'd done so several times before. and it didn't fail for all the years that product was running.