Re:HashiCorp – S1
by potamic on Friday November 05, 2021 @01:46AM
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Could you elaborate on the service discovery part? If you're in kubernetes, you have kube-dns which in effect is service discovery right? What does consul provide over this?
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Re:HashiCorp – S1
by jordanbeiber on Friday November 05, 2021 @03:03AM
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Kubernetes works on it’s own if all you use is in k8s.
I’ve yet to set foot in a bigger place with distributed teams and services that only use k8s and nothing else.
In these settings there’s a need to interconnect and monitor everything.
I’ve even at one time registered mainframe stuff in consul, as an external service, with a rather complex health checks in place. This alone improved observability and reliability for a lot of the distributed consumers.