From 156a35703eb4985db5811f6f4fd740a2a92b2174 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Shumate Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 12:06:18 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] add new FAQ details --- website/source/docs/faq.html.markdown | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/website/source/docs/faq.html.markdown b/website/source/docs/faq.html.markdown index 3ed2074080..02b4eb5263 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/faq.html.markdown +++ b/website/source/docs/faq.html.markdown @@ -18,6 +18,21 @@ and can be disabled. See [`disable_anonymous_signature`](/docs/agent/options.html#disable_anonymous_signature) and [`disable_update_check`](/docs/agent/options.html#disable_update_check). +## Q: How does Atlas integration work? + +Hosted Consul Enterprise in Atlas was officially deprecated on March 7th, +2017. + +There are strong alternatives available and they are listed below. + +For users on AWS the [-retry-join-ec2 configuration options](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#_retry_join_ec2_tag_key) allow bootstrapping by automatically discovering AWS instances with a given tag key/value at startup. For users not on AWS the native [-join and retry-join functionality](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#_join) can be used. + +Other features of Consul Enterprise, such as the UI and Alerts also have suitable open source alternatives. + +For replacing the UI, we recommend the [free UI packaged as part of Consul open source](https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#_ui). A live demo can be access at [https://demo.consul.io/ui/](https://demo.consul.io/ui/). + +For replacing alerts, we recommend the [open source Consul alerts daemon](https://github.com/acalephstorage/consul-alerts). This is not maintained or supported by HashiCorp, however there is active development from the community. + ## Q: Does Consul rely on UDP Broadcast or Multicast? Consul uses the [Serf](https://www.serf.io) gossip protocol which relies on @@ -89,10 +104,9 @@ of any excessive resource utilization before arbitrarily increasing the limits. ## Q: What is the per-key value size limitation for Consul's key/value store? -The limit on a key's value size is 512KB. This is is strictly enforced and a +The limit on a key's value size is 512KB. This is is strictly enforced and an HTTP 413 status will be returned to any client that attempts to store more than that limit in a value. It should be noted that the Consul key/value store is not designed to be used as a general purpose database. See [Server Performance](https://www.consul.io/docs/guides/performance.html) for more details. -