HashiCorp Consul: What's the catch?

• consul

  61 28,202 9.8 Go

  Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.

  

  So, my tech lead has once more had the sweet whispers of HashiCorp blaring in his ear, and to my irritation has decreed that we will be prioritizing bringing Consul into our environment despite pretty much everything else we have being in various states of rotting popsicle sticks and scotch tape.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Purpose built for real-time analytics at any scale. InfluxDB Platform is powered by columnar analytics, optimized for cost-efficient storage, and built with open data standards.

  

• git2consul

  2 760 0.0 JavaScript

  Mirrors the contents of a git repository into Consul KVs.

  Git2consul is a nice addition

• envoy

  73 24,553 10.0 C++

  Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy

  

  For service mesh, Consul uses Envoy to provide L4 and L7 load balancing for both east-west (sidecar proxy) and north-south (ingress) traffic. Consul supports configuring a number of Envoy’s load balancing algorithms such as round robin, least request, ring hash, maglev, etc (see Load Balancing Services in Consul Service Mesh with Envoy for a tutorial).

• gobetween

  5 1,931 0.0 Go

  :cloud: Modern & minimalistic load balancer for the Сloud era

  HAProxy, Traefik, FabioLB, gobetween, and F5 BIG-IP also support native integrations with Consul for service discovery / service mesh.

• fabio

  7 7,253 4.1 Go

  Consul Load-Balancing made simple

  

  HAProxy, Traefik, FabioLB, gobetween, and F5 BIG-IP also support native integrations with Consul for service discovery / service mesh.

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com featured

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