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SHOW HN2015

54points
6comments
#524of 2,565 in 2015
Top 21%of 2015 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

2 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.

Idea: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Works well; a commenter uses Consul for service discovery in production

    From 1 comment
    • Works great. We have several services (rails and Python) that use consul in AWS for service discovery and as a shared key/value store for some types of configuration. You could…
      whatnotests on HN
  • Consul.NET library by the maker is the most complete .NET option

    From 1 comment
    • And thank you for making the Consul.NET lib :-) I found a few of those but your were the most complete
      RogerAlsing on HN

Questions

  • What Consul is and why a library on top of it is needed

    From 1 comment
    • Can someone describe what is Consul and why would anyone need this library on top of it? What problems is it solving (in comparison with WCF or plain WebAPI?).
      polskibus on HN
  • What Consul offers beyond AWS or Azure

    From 1 comment
    • I'm no expert, but. Consul is this: https://www.consul.io/intro/index.html As you can see it does service discovery, health checking and configuration management. As I understand…
      SideburnsOfDoom on HN

Alternatives named

  • Tags plus S3 or DynamoDB for service discovery and config

    From 1 comment
    • Works great. We have several services (rails and Python) that use consul in AWS for service discovery and as a shared key/value store for some types of configuration. You could…
      whatnotests on HN
  • Diplomat gem, python-consul, consulate for other languages

    From 1 comment
    • Works great. We have several services (rails and Python) that use consul in AWS for service discovery and as a shared key/value store for some types of configuration. You could…
      whatnotests on HN
  • Azure Service Fabric

    From 1 comment
    • Looks like Consul is trying to fill the gap until Service Fabric comes out, but might be moot after it does. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/service-fabric/
      aashishkoirala on HN

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