In this blog post, I’ll provide my thoughts about Consul for ProxySQL service discovery and automation.
I approached Consul recently while looking for a service discovery and configuration automation solution for ProxySQL. My colleague Nik Vyzas wrote a great post on this topic, and I suggest you read it. I wrote this article to share my first impressions of Consul (for whomever it might interest).
Consul is a complete service discovery solution. In this respect it differs from its alternative etcd, which only provides a foundation to build such solutions.
Consul consists of a single, small binary (the Linux binary is 24MB). You just download it, edit the configuration file and start the program. It doesn’t …
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