> Quite frankly relying on consul scares the shit out of me. There are so few guarantees and so many pitfalls and traps that I don’t sleep well. At this point I consider it a mortal risk.

Consul (and Vault) for sure a complex softwares that 99% of the time "just work", but when they fail they can fail big time, I concur. But calling it a mortal risk seems a bit far fetched in my opinion.