Consul
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Consul is a service networking solution that helps teams manage secure network connectivity between services across on-premises, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud environments and runtimes.
Consul provides service discovery, service mesh, identity-based authorization, L7 traffic management, and secure service-to-service encryption.
A service mesh implementation
About
It is a tool that makes Service Mesh easy, meaning it makes it easy to implement the mechanisms for communication between services in a Service Mesh Architecture, that is, a MicroService Architecture in a cloud environment. There are many features that Service Mesh (MicroService Architecture) aims for.
- Service Discovery
- Load Balancing
- Dynamic Request Routing
- Circuit Breaking
- Etc..
Among these, the parts that stand out in Consul are Health check + Service Discovery + Key/value.
With Consul, it seems you can implement communication channels between services, such as Health check and Service Discovery, cleanly and without complexity.