Information Technology

Consul is a great fit for service discovery and configuration in modern, elastic applications that are built from microservices. The open-source tool makes use of the latest technology in providing internal DNS names for services. It acts as a kind of broker to help you sign and register names, enabling you to access service names instead of specific machines. If, for example, you have a cluster of multiple machines, you can simply register them as a single entity under Consul and access the cluster easily. We praise this tool for its efficiency, although we still feel there is more that can be done with it. If you also use it, it would be great to hear about your own use case.