consul
Will Faught
October 2015
HashiCorp on Consul versus Chef, Puppet, etc.: It is not uncommon to find people using Chef, Puppet, and other configuration management tools to build service discovery mechanisms. This is usually done by querying global state to construct configuration files on each node during a periodic convergence run. Unfortunately, this approach has a number of pitfalls. The configuration information is static and cannot update any more frequently than convergence runs. Generally this is on the interval of many minutes or hours.
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Consul Vs. ZooKeeper, Doozerd, Etcd
HashiCorp on Consul versus ZooKeeper, doozerd, and etcd: ZooKeeper, doozerd, and etcd are all similar in their architecture. All three have server nodes that require a quorum of nodes to operate (usually a simple majority). They are strongly-consistent and expose various primitives that can be used through client libraries within applications to build complex distributed systems. […] All of these systems have roughly the same semantics when providing key/value storage: reads are strongly consistent and availability is sacrificed for consistency in the face of a network partition.
consul etcd hashicorp zookeeper
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