This document discusses service discovery and how it can be implemented using Consul. It begins with an introduction to the presenter and overview of service discovery challenges. The main points are:
- Consul is a service discovery tool that allows services to register themselves and discover other services via API or DNS queries. It supports health checking and secure key-value storage.
- Consul uses agents running on each node that register services and perform health checks. Services can be discovered via the REST API or DNS queries. It provides a strongly consistent key-value store.
- Puppet can integrate with Consul for service discovery via Puppet modules, Hiera backend, or direct API access. This allows dynamically generating configurations from service information in