Consul Integration

Introduction

Consul is a service configuration and discovery tool created by HashiCorp. They provide a brief overview of Consul in their introduction. You can learn more about Consul on its official website.

Why use Consul?

Consul provides service discovery using DNS or HTTP. The MongoDB Enterprise bosh release downloads and runs Automation Agent from OpsManager. Consul provides a simple DNS name which is resolved dynamically. This means even when VMs are recreated they can still be addressed the same although the IP might change. Further consul provides round robin DNS, which enables scaling.

Is consul mandatory?

No! You can use this bosh release without consul.