spring-cloud-consul ConsulServerList to support multiple data center

Currently, when using consul and ribbon (ZoneAwareLoadBalancer), multiple data centers are not supported so it is not really zone aware.

Looks like a simple change in the getServers method in ConsulServerList to first query for all data centers and after it query each data center for the healthy services.

Jul 05 '17 09:07 ezraroi

also looks like when using consul, the ZonePreferenceServerListFilter should be used and not the HealthServiceServerListFilter

Jul 06 '17 04:07 ezraroi

Consul supports multiple data centers to share data, but is different with eureka. So I don't think it's a good idea to use consul in the eureka way. Consul has it's own query interface(/v1/query/) to get data from another data center.

Jun 16 '19 02:06 varnson

@varnson This is not true. Consul also support service discovery via multiple data center. This is how we use it. We implemented a MultizoneDatacenterServerList.

Jun 16 '19 18:06 ezraroi

@ezraroi Yes, consul support service discovery via multiple data center. And consul has a query interface to query services between data centers. https://www.consul.io/api/query.html So I think there is no need to use MultizoneDatacenterServerList.

Jun 17 '19 13:06 varnson

@varnson by having it as a server list filter we create ribbon clients that sends requests to different data center of a service doesn't exists in the current data center

Jun 17 '19 17:06 ezraroi