Consul Demystified: Exploring the principles behind better service discovery
summary
Consul Demystified explains how HashiCorp Consul implements service discovery and related primitives for service-based architectures. It covers Consul’s core technologies—service registration, health checks, key/value store, and DNS/HTTP interfaces—and examines the design principles and operational practices teams can use to deploy and manage Consul for reliable service discovery.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 1:22What are Consuls features?
- 4:49Clients and servers
- 6:30Architectural Overview
- 23:15What is Raft?
- 26:46CAP theorem
- 28:07Replicated state machine architecture
- 35:15Majority Voting
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