jackal VS consul

Take your pick. Or just look here.

XMPP servers have the ability to use backend authenticators that can share existing auth infrastructure. This is commonly used for LDAP integration at corporations, for instance. The jackal XMPP server, since it is in Go and this is /r/golang, appears to have some support for this although it appears you'd have to go learn GRPC, the docs basically assume you know what you're doing with that already.

How much traffic do you expect ? If you don't expect much traffic and you are happy with single server (or maybe a sharded cluster) you may be able to pull something off by yourself. Otherwise you should go with something already proved, like XMPP. Have a look at https://github.com/ortuman/jackal

Raw sockets are just a "plain pipes" that can carry any logic, while XMPP is already well defined, long established protocol for instant messaging. Check it out: - XMPP Server - XMPP client lib

jackal

The JHipster scaffolded sample application has a gateway application and two microservices. It uses Consul for service discovery and centralized configuration.

Service Discovery: Microservices need to discover and communicate with each other dynamically. Service discovery tools like etcd, Consul, or Kubernetes built-in service discovery mechanisms help locate and connect to microservices running on different nodes within the infrastructure.

After some research and testing, I landed on using Consul and Fabio as the demo infrastructure. Of course, there is a myriad of other options to accomplish this task, but because of the low configuration and ease of use, I was impressed with this pairing. Both projects are mature and well-supported, and very flexible--just because you can run them with low configuration, doesn't mean you have to. I wanted to keep this demo constrained, but the exercise did get me excited about exploring things further: circuit breakers, traffic splitting, and more complex service meshes.

The goal is to be able to use Consul SD configurations to allow for retrieving scrape targets from consul. Is this possible? Can anyone provide an example? Thank you!!

https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/12080 - this should be the Consul issue that brought down Roblox

The Consul collector is production ready! Consul by HashiCorp is a powerful and complex identity-based networking solution, which is not trivial to monitor. We were lucky to have the assistance of HashiCorp itself in this endeavor, which resulted in a monitoring solution of exceptional quality. Look for common blog posts and announcements in the coming weeks!

Changed the service discovery to Consul, since this is the default in JHipster 8.

In another effort to standardize development and operations, Lob has just wrapped up our container orchestration migration from Convox to HashiCorp’s Nomad, led by Senior Platform Engineer Elijah Voigt. In this new ecosystem, one feature available to us is Consul Service Mesh (a feature of Consul, which is part of our Lob Nomad stack).

Service registry and discovery etcd, consul, nacos