Virtual IP for service "discovery"?

[Brian Lalor]

Last week I watched a talk given by Mitchell (I think it was from Dockercon EU ’14) that made a reference to an alternative form of service discovery that essentially entailed a Consul-provided virtual IP address.  It sounded like connections to that IP (on any port?) would be accepted by Consul and forwarded to the host and port where the service is running.  Is that an idea that is still being pursued?  I can see that being useful for clients that don’t support SRV records natively (which is unfortunately most of them).

Thanks,

Brian

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Brian Lalor

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[James Phillips]

Hi Brian,

Take a look at https://github.com/eBay/fabio - that sits alongside
Consul and provides this in a very easy-to-consume form.

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[François Prud'homme]

For information, there is also https://github.com/containous/traefik
I switch from fabio to traefik due to the feeling that traefik has a bigger community/dev team (it's only a feeling 😉).

By reading title of this subject, i was wondering if someone has already try to do a virtual ip managed with consul. I'm using keepalived, but with lock/watch/services/checks... Maybe it's possible to give all to consul ? (vip is essential beside fabio/traefik/haproxy... Due to fact that too many client have a too big dns cache to rely only on consul dns 😕)