Microservices with Docker on Microsoft Azure™ (includes Content Update Program)

Technologies

Many of the technologies discussed here do more than just store service discovery data, and are often used for coordination as well as a configuration store. In addition to the features and libraries that integrate with these services, you should consider the following: If you are going to deploy Docker Swarm and use Consul for cluster coordination, then maybe you want to consider using it for service discovery so you don’t have to deploy and maintain another system. You need to be careful and consider how this could affect the scalability and performance of the cluster, as well as the different requirements and features of the technology, like the consistency models.

Note

When sharing deployments of a service, be careful that ...