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		vinay_ys on Dec 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's not always DNS, unless it is Yes, it is much easier to build and scale a general config service that can serve keys (like names in dns) and associated config snippets with versioning and expiry/go-live timestamps etc. Such a service enables us to build on top of it things like service discovery, failover, draining, cutover, weighted load-balancing etc. It is much easier to also control/orchestrate/audit changes to key-configs in globally consistent transactional manner and guarantee these changes will be instantly visible to every client or will be deterministically spread-out/staggered etc. It is also much easier to do interpolation of config variables arranged in a hierarchical class namespace. All this makes it a lot more powerful building block for large scale infra services than dns ever could and it has none of the drawbacks of dns.

moondev on Dec 22, 2023 [–]

Now we just need a kubernetes cluster with coredns to deploy eureka!

    http://eureka-0.eureka.default.svc.cluster.local:eureka:8761/eureka
    http://eureka-1.eureka.default.svc.cluster.local:eureka:8761/eureka
    http://eureka-2.eureka.default.svc.cluster.local:eureka:8761/eureka

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