Consul

Service Discovery and Configuration Made Easy

Features

• Service Discovery
• Failure Detection
• DNS Query interface
• Key Value Storage
• Multi datacenter

Registrators

• registrator - Service registry bridge for Docker with pluggable adapters

Replication

• consul-replicate - Consul cross-DC KV replication daemon. https://www.hashicorp.com/

Alerting

• consul-alerts - A simple daemon to send notifications based on Consul health checks

Use consul (or vault) values in your microservices

• envconsul - Launch a subprocess with environment variables using data from @HashiCorp Consul and Vault.
• consul-template - Template rendering, notifier, and supervisor for @HashiCorp Consul and Vault data.
• diplomat - A HTTP Ruby API for Consul
• vaultron - 🤖 Vault + Consul Terraformed onto Docker for great fun and learning!

Integrations

• hash-ui - Alternative to consul UI

Kubernetes

• kube-consul-register

Multi datacenter

• Issue about multi dc configuration

Links

• Official
• Monitoring Consul with statsd exporter and Prometheus
• Service Discovery with Docker and Consul: part 1
• Using Consul for Service Discovery In Multiple Data Centers
• Securing Consul
• What you have to know about Consul and how to beat the outage problem
• Consul at Datadog