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## What is Consul?
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## What is Consul?
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Consul has multiple components, but as a whole, it is tool for managing
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Consul has multiple components, but as a whole, it is tool for discovering
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and coordinating infrastructure. It provides several key features:
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and configuring services in your infrastructure.. It provides several
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key features:
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* **Service Discovery**: Clients of Consul can _provide_ a service, such as
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* **Service Discovery**: Clients of Consul can _provide_ a service, such as
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`api` or `mysql`, and other clients can use Consul to _discover_ providers
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`api` or `mysql`, and other clients can use Consul to _discover_ providers
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It is not uncommon to find people using Chef, Puppet, and other configuration
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It is not uncommon to find people using Chef, Puppet, and other configuration
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management tools to build service discovery mechanisms. This is usually
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management tools to build service discovery mechanisms. This is usually
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done by querying global state to construct configuration files on each
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done by querying global state to construct configuration files on each
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node during a periodic convergence run. Unfortunately, this approach has
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node during a periodic convergence run.
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Unfortunately, this approach has
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a number of pitfalls. The configuration information is static,
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a number of pitfalls. The configuration information is static,
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and cannot update any more frequently than convergence runs. Generally this
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and cannot update any more frequently than convergence runs. Generally this
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is on the interval of many minutes or hours. Additionally, there is no
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is on the interval of many minutes or hours. Additionally, there is no
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