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Re:Consul 1.0 Released by scarface74 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @08:03AM (#15498366)
That's not what the documentation says. The KV is using raft, you can relax some guarantees for reading by having clients use consistency=stale, but you're still communicating with the server, except in stale you only communicate with one instead all of them.

How do you come to the conclusion that you're communicating with the server? When I'm doing any type of communications with consul via the API I'm always communicating with 127.0.0.1/....

Re:Consul 1.0 Released by hamandcheese on Thursday October 19, 2017 @06:04AM (#15506682)
Local agents forward to your central consul servers.