| PackageDescription | tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration
Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is
distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable.
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Consul provides several key features:
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- Service Discovery - Consul makes it simple for services to register
themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface.
External services such as SaaS providers can be registered as well.
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- Health Checking - Health Checking enables Consul to quickly alert operators
about any issues in a cluster. The integration with service discovery
prevents routing traffic to unhealthy hosts and enables service level
circuit breakers.
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- Key/Value Storage - A flexible key/value store enables storing dynamic
configuration, feature flagging, coordination, leader election and more. The
simple HTTP API makes it easy to use anywhere.
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- Multi-Datacenter - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can support
any number of regions without complex configuration.
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Consul runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It is recommended to run the
Consul servers only on Linux, however. |