consul

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

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  15. etcd

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    83 consul VS envoy

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    66 consul VS JHipster

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    40 consul VS zipkin

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  20. conduit

    39 consul VS conduit

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  21. consul-template

    Template rendering, notifier, and supervisor for @HashiCorp Consul and Vault data.

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  • A Comparative Analysis of K3s, MicroK8s, and Alternatives
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Apr 2025
    I had a distaste for Nomad before the rug pull[1], but hopefully no serious person would voluntarily choose Nomad after that stunt. Doubly so that going with the Nomad ecosystem mandates self-hosting as one cannot $(aws elastic-nomad create-cluster). I was similarly surprised that HashiCorp didn't even offer "you pay for compute but we will administer your control plane" since both the "community" and the "enterprise" links from the front page both say "self-managed"

    I will be super curious to see if IBM Cloud actually does ship $(ibm-cloud-cli create-nomad)

    1: I also didn't realize they rug pulled Consul, too; that's just cruel https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.20.5/LICENSE

  • Why We Chose NGINX + HashiStack Over Kubernetes for Our Service Discovery Needs
    7 projects | dev.to | 6 Oct 2024
    No need for NGINX reloads: Since NGINX queries the Consul Go API client for healthy services on each request, there’s no need to reload NGINX whenever a service moves between nodes or when new instances are added.
  • Work Stealing: Load-balancing for compute-heavy tasks
    6 projects | dev.to | 23 Jul 2024
    When a backend starts or stops, something needs to update, whether it’s Consul, kube-proxy, ELB, or otherwise. To stop a worker without incurring failures, you need to prevent the load balancer from sending new requests and then finishing existing ones.
  • Installing Consul Bash Script
    1 project | dev.to | 23 Jul 2024
  • Secure and Resilient Design
    5 projects | dev.to | 19 Jul 2024
    Consul - To set up secure network communication via mTLS, service location and certificate issuance
  • Service Registry: When should you use them and why?
    1 project | dev.to | 16 Jul 2024
    Hashicorp Consul
  • Deploy Secure Spring Boot Microservices on Amazon EKS Using Terraform and Kubernetes
    13 projects | dev.to | 23 Nov 2023
    The JHipster scaffolded sample application has a gateway application and two microservices. It uses Consul for service discovery and centralized configuration.
  • The Complete Microservices Guide
    17 projects | dev.to | 21 Sep 2023
    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.
  • Replicating and Load Balancing Go Applications in Docker Containers with Consul and Fabio
    4 projects | /r/golang | 31 May 2023
    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.
  • register open-telemetry to consul
    1 project | /r/hashicorp | 5 May 2023
    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!!
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