Consul On Kubernetes

[UlaganathanNamachivayam]

@kelseyhightower How does it help running consul on kubernetes. How anyone can be able register kubernetes services on to consul and utilize it as service discovery tool over DNS. I am not finding any reference utilizing consul as a service discovery tool for kubernetes.

Kindly share your thoughts/notes if it is a viable solution.

[sabrehagen]

Hi, I'd like to understand why one would run Consul on Kubernetes too please. Could you explain the motivation?

[edbergavera]

Hello Jackson,

We use Consul because that's what our previous backend guy already uses for service discovery and key-value store before we moved into Kubernetes. I know that Kubernetes has the necessary components built-in to support service discovery and kv store. Isn't it?

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Hi, I'd like to understand why one would run Consul on Kubernetes too please. Could you explain the motivation?

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[sabrehagen]

That is true, and hence our confusion :) I use Consul too for service discovery from the era when this was conventional.

[kelseyhightower]

@sabrehagen Consul has other use cases like backing Vault and provide cross cluster service discovery.

[dotw]

I was asked the same questions, and I agree with @kelseyhightower . I like the healthy check feature and I can define my own rules.

[combatpoodle]

Also leader election, distributed locking, persistent KV storage between task runs. It's always nice to have something you can just curl shortcut with a bash script to store a value and fetch/update it later with another curl shortcut.