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Adds a warning about DoS-ing the cluster with consul exec.

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James Phillips 2016-02-05 17:36:19 -08:00
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@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ While events are purely gossip driven, remote execution relies on the KV store
as a message broker. As a result, the `exec` command will not be able to as a message broker. As a result, the `exec` command will not be able to
properly function during a Consul outage. properly function during a Consul outage.
**Verbose output warning:** use care to make sure that your command does not
produce a large volume of output. Writes to the KV store for this output go
through the Consul servers and the Raft consesnus algorithm, so having a large
number of nodes in the cluster flow a large amount of data through the KV store
could make the cluster unavailable.
## Usage ## Usage
Usage: `consul exec [options] [-|command...]` Usage: `consul exec [options] [-|command...]`