Use consul for distributed lock like zookeeper is this possible

ruslan usifov

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Jun 18, 2016, 5:00:24 PM6/18/16

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Hello

Is this a good idea to use caosul instead zookeeper for distributed lock service

Chris Stevens

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Jun 18, 2016, 7:31:48 PM6/18/16

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I use and can recommend Consul for distributed locking.

Here's an example in 3 lines of code:

https://github.com/stevenscg/consul-php-sdk#lock-handler

And a demo app and environment of the same:

https://github.com/stevenscg/service-discovery-with-consul#step-6-distributed-locks

ruslan usifov

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Jun 20, 2016, 2:23:27 PM6/20/16

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Interested in how big the bandwidth in this case?

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Chris Stevens

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Jun 21, 2016, 12:31:05 PM6/21/16

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I don't have any specifics, but it should be minimal.

The lock requests are simple for each operation. Basically:
HTTP PUT /v1/session

HTTP PUT /v1/kv

I would say that most use cases (up to 1000s of locks) should be fine.

- Chris

ruslan usifov

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Jun 22, 2016, 8:16:42 AM6/22/16

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Hello

1k per sec this is total lock counts or per node? If you don't mind, can you describe how busy consul in this situation in cpu persentages? And can you provide you harware spec?

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