From 41aa8eb44e20a8947112184e184cb7d14ea7505f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Armon Dadgar
Consul makes it simple for services to register themselves
and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface.
- Register external services such as SaaS providers, as well.
Pairing service discovery with health checking prevents routing requests to unhealthy hosts, and enables services to easily provide circuit breakers.
+Pairing service discovery with health checking prevents routing requests to unhealthy hosts and enables services to easily provide circuit breakers.
Consul scales to multiple datacenters out of the box, with no complicated configuration. Look up services in other datacenters, or keep the request local.
+Consul scales to multiple datacenters out of the box with no complicated configuration. Look up services in other datacenters, or keep the request local.
- Consul provides a flexible, hierarchical key/value store accessible - via a simple HTTP API. This data is replicated across multiple - servers and is highly available. Other HTTP APIs let you long poll - for changes to a key. + Consul provides a hierarchical key/value store with a simple HTTP API. + Managing configuration has never been simpler.