https://blog.vnykmshr.com/writing/tags/consul/Recent content in Consul on vnykmshrHugoenMon, 10 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.vnykmshr.com/writing/consul-in-practice/Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.vnykmshr.com/writing/consul-in-practice/<p>The microservice count is growing fast. The monolith is mostly gone and what replaced it is dozens of services across datacenters. We don&rsquo;t have a uniform naming convention. Finding a service means knowing which team owns it, which cloud it&rsquo;s on, and what they called it. That&rsquo;s not scalable.</p> <p>Consul fixed the naming problem first.</p> <h2 id="service-discovery">Service discovery</h2> <p>Every service registers with Consul. The DNS interface gives us a consistent way to find anything:</p>