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Consul, CoreDNS, Zookeeper, Eureka, and etcd are the most popular alternatives and competitors to SkyDNS.
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What is SkyDNS and what are its top alternatives?

SkyDNS is a distributed service for announcement and discovery of services. It leverages Raft for high-availability and consensus, and utilizes DNS queries to discover available services. This is done by leveraging SRV records in DNS, with special meaning given to subdomains, priorities and weights (more info here: http://blog.gopheracademy.com/skydns).
SkyDNS is a tool in the Open Source Service Discovery category of a tech stack.
SkyDNS is an open source tool with 2.2K GitHub stars and 315 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to SkyDNS's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to SkyDNS

  • Consul
    Consul

    Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable. ...

  • CoreDNS
    CoreDNS

    CoreDNS is a DNS server. It is written in Go. It can be used in a multitude of environments because of its flexibility ...

  • Zookeeper
    Zookeeper

    A centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. All of these kinds of services are used in some form or another by distributed applications. ...

  • Eureka
    Eureka

    Eureka is a REST (Representational State Transfer) based service that is primarily used in the AWS cloud for locating services for the purpose of load balancing and failover of middle-tier servers. ...

  • etcd
    etcd

    etcd is a distributed key value store that provides a reliable way to store data across a cluster of machines. It’s open-source and available on GitHub. etcd gracefully handles master elections during network partitions and will tolerate machine failure, including the master. ...

  • Keepalived
    Keepalived

    The main goal of this project is to provide simple and robust facilities for loadbalancing and high-availability to Linux system and Linux based infrastructures. ...

  • Serf
    Serf

    Serf is a service discovery and orchestration tool that is decentralized, highly available, and fault tolerant. Serf runs on every major platform: Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It is extremely lightweight: it uses 5 to 10 MB of resident memory and primarily communicates using infrequent UDP messages. ...

  • SmartStack
    SmartStack

    Scaling a web infrastructure requires services, and building a service-oriented infrastructure is hard. Make it EASY, with SmartStack’s automated, transparent service discovery and registration: cruise control for your distributed infrastructure. ...

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    Great service discovery infrastructure
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    Web-UI
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    Token-based acls
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    Dns server
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    Not Java
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    As we've evolved or added additional infrastructure to our stack, we've biased towards managed services. Most new backing stores are Amazon RDS instances now. We do use self-managed PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB for time-series data—this is made HA with the use of Patroni and Consul.

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    Since the beginning, Cal Henderson has been the CTO of Slack. Earlier this year, he commented on a Quora question summarizing their current stack.

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    • Android: a mix of Java and Kotlin.
    • iOS: written in a mix of Objective C and Swift.
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    • The core application and the API written in PHP/Hack that runs on HHVM.
    • The data is stored in MySQL using Vitess.
    • Caching is done using Memcached and MCRouter.
    • The search service takes help from SolrCloud, with various Java services.
    • The messaging system uses WebSockets with many services in Java and Go.
    • Load balancing is done using HAproxy with Consul for configuration.
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    • Voice and video calling service was built in Elixir.
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    CoreDNS

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        High performance ,easy to generate node specific config
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        Java
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        Supports extensive distributed IPC
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        Used in ClickHouse
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        Embeddable In Java Service
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        Used in Hadoop
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        Eureka

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        AWS Service registry for resilient mid-tier load balancing and failover.
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        PROS OF EUREKA
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          Easy setup and integration with spring-cloud
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          Health checking
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          Monitoring
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          Circuit breaker
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          Service discovery
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          Netflix battle tested components
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          etcd

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          A distributed consistent key-value store for shared configuration and service discovery
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          PROS OF ETCD
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            Service discovery
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            Secure
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            Bundled with coreos
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            Keepalived

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            PROS OF KEEPALIVED
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              2 nodes HA cluster management
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              Extremely fast (IPVS)
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                  SmartStack

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                    Elegant and powerful
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