Full Stack Development with JHipster

HashiCorp Consul

Consul (https://www.consul.io/) is primarily a service discovery client from Hashicorp. It focuses on consistency. Consul is completely written in Go.

This means it will have a lower memory footprint. Added to that, we can also use Consul with services written in any programming language.

The main advantages of using Consul are as follows:

• It has a lower memory footprint
• It can be used with services that are written in any programming language
• It focuses on consistency rather than availability 

Consul also provides service discovery, failure detection, multi-data center configuration, and storage.

This is an alternative option to JHipster Registry. There is an option to choose between JHipster Registry and Consul during ...