From 603ae7abc566962546d8619b167ea6ae2701e7e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mitchell Hashimoto Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 22:04:28 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update README --- README.md | 28 ++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index dcb60190e6..67bbc6fa45 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -4,32 +4,32 @@ * IRC: `#consul` on Freenode * Mailing list: [Google Groups](https://groups.google.com/group/consul-tool/) -Consul is a tool for managing and coordinating infrastructure. To do that -it provides several key features: +Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is +distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable. -* Service Discovery - Services can register themselves and to easily - discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface. +Consul provides several key features: -* Health Checking - Health Checking enables Consul to quickly alert +* **Service Discovery** - Consul makes it simple for services to register + themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface. + External services such as SaaS providers can be registered as well. + +* **Health Checking** - Health Checking enables Consul to quickly alert operators about any issues in a cluster. The integration with service discovery prevents routing traffic to unhealthy hosts and enables service level circuit breakers. -* Key/Value Store - A flexible key/value store enables storing dynamic configuration - feature flagging, coordination, leader election and more. The simple HTTP - API makes it easy to use anywhere. +* **Key/Value Storage** - A flexible key/value store enables storing + dynamic configuration, feature flagging, coordination, leader election and + more. The simple HTTP API makes it easy to use anywhere. -* Multi-Datacenter - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can support - any number of regions without complex configuration. +* **Multi-Datacenter** - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can + support any number of regions without complex configuration. Consul runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It is recommended to run the -Consul servers on Linux however. +Consul servers only on Linux, however. ## Quick Start -First, [download a pre-built Consul binary](http://www.consul.io/downloads.html) -for your operating system or [compile Consul yourself](#developing-consul). - An extensive quick quick start is viewable on the Consul website: http://www.consul.io/intro/getting-started/install.html