From 4d7dc324762fce1fb3d392eaf103a5c4a38da810 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mitchell Hashimoto Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:53:29 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Minor copy changes --- website/source/intro/index.html.markdown | 5 +++-- website/source/intro/vs/chef-puppet.html.markdown | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/website/source/intro/index.html.markdown b/website/source/intro/index.html.markdown index 6793944a70..e50f3cfb9e 100644 --- a/website/source/intro/index.html.markdown +++ b/website/source/intro/index.html.markdown @@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ of a reference for all available features. ## 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 diff --git a/website/source/intro/vs/chef-puppet.html.markdown b/website/source/intro/vs/chef-puppet.html.markdown index d9a180b5a8..b0dc6ddbcc 100644 --- a/website/source/intro/vs/chef-puppet.html.markdown +++ b/website/source/intro/vs/chef-puppet.html.markdown @@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ sidebar_current: "vs-other-chef" 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