Why is service discovery important? (And what is Consul?)
A brief introduction to service discovery—and the most popular tool for achieving it: Consul.
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This is an excerpt from Rick Fast’s “Developing Ops-Friendly Microservices,” which covers the modern container stack from end-to-end.