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Self-Announcing .NET Services on Top of Consul

Shown by RogerAlsing on Oct 19, 2015. Click the card to turn it over.

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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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

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

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