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In current implementation of Consul, check alias cannot determine if a service exists or not. Because a service without any check is semantically considered as passing, so when no healthchecks are found for an agent, the check was considered as passing. But this make little sense as the current implementation does not make any difference between: * a non-existing service (passing) * a service without any check (passing as well) In order to make it work, we have to ensure that when a check did not find any healthcheck, the service does indeed exists. If it does not, lets consider the check as failing.
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Consul provides several key features:
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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.
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