Consul Has a Free Service Discovery and Mesh Platform for Any Infrastructure

HashiCorp Consul provides service discovery, configuration, and segmentation for any runtime platform and cloud. What You Get for Free Service discovery — DNS and HTTP API Health checking — automatic service monitoring KV store — distributed configuration Service mesh — mTLS between services via Connect Multi-datacenter — WAN federation ACLs — fine-grained access control Quick Start consul agent -dev UI at http://localhost:8500 . Register a Service { "service" : { "name" : "web" , "port" : 8080 , "check" : { "http" : "http://localhost:8080/health" , "interval" : "10s" } } } Discover Services dig @127.0.0.1 -p 8600 web.service.consul curl http://localhost:8500/v1/catalog/service/web Consul vs etcd Feature Consul etcd Service discovery Built-in Manual Health checks Built-in External UI Built-in No Service mesh Yes (Connect) No Need service discovery setup? Check my work on GitHub or email spinov001@gmail.com for consulting.