service-discovery

Leveraging Consul’s DNS Interface

By clivern On May 8, 2019 In Scaling, Service Discovery

Consul DNS interface allows applications to make use of service discovery without any integration with Consul. For example, instead of making HTTP API requests to Consul, a host can use the DNS server directly via name lookups like clivern.service.us.consul.

Getting Started With Consul Service Discovery Tool

By clivern On May 20, 2018 In Linux, Microservices, Scaling

Consul is a tool for discovering and configuring services in your infrastructure. It provides several key features like service discovery, health checking, KV store and multi datacenter support.