| PackageDescription | Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is distributed,
highly available, and extremely scalable.
Consul provides several key features:
– Service Discovery - Consul makes it simple for services to register
themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface.
External services such as SaaS providers can be registered as well.
– Health Checking - Health Checking enables Consul to quickly alert operators
about any issues in a cluster. The integration with service discovery
prevents routing traffic to unhealthy hosts and enables service level circuit
breakers.
– Key/Value Storage - A flexible key/value store enables storing dynamic
configuration, feature flagging, coordination, leader election and more. The
simple HTTP API makes it easy to use anywhere.
– Multi-Datacenter - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can support
any number of regions without complex configuration.
– Service Segmentation - Consul Connect enables secure service-to-service
communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based
authorization.
This package contains the source code needed for building packages that
reference the following Go import paths:
– github.com/hashicorp/consul |