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## What is Consul?
-Consul has multiple components, but as a whole, it is tool for managing
-and coordinating infrastructure. It provides several key features:
+Consul has multiple components, but as a whole, it is tool for discovering
+and configuring services in your infrastructure.. It provides several
+key features:
* **Service Discovery**: Clients of Consul can _provide_ a service, such as
`api` or `mysql`, and other clients can use Consul to _discover_ providers
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It is not uncommon to find people using Chef, Puppet, and other configuration
management tools to build service discovery mechanisms. This is usually
done by querying global state to construct configuration files on each
-node during a periodic convergence run. Unfortunately, this approach has
+node during a periodic convergence run.
+
+Unfortunately, this approach has
a number of pitfalls. The configuration information is static,
and cannot update any more frequently than convergence runs. Generally this
is on the interval of many minutes or hours. Additionally, there is no