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Consul vs Zookeeper: What are the differences?

Consul: A tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration. Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable; Zookeeper: Because coordinating distributed systems is a Zoo. 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.

Consul and Zookeeper can be primarily classified as "Open Source Service Discovery" tools.

"Great service discovery infrastructure" is the top reason why over 49 developers like Consul, while over 9 developers mention "High performance ,easy to generate node specific config" as the leading cause for choosing Zookeeper.

Consul is an open source tool with 16.2K GitHub stars and 2.82K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Consul's open source repository on GitHub.

DigitalOcean, imgix, and Leftronic are some of the popular companies that use Consul, whereas Zookeeper is used by Uber Technologies, Pinterest, and Coursera. Consul has a broader approval, being mentioned in 131 company stacks & 52 developers stacks; compared to Zookeeper, which is listed in 116 company stacks and 48 developer stacks.

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Pros of Consul

Pros of Zookeeper

58
Great service discovery infrastructure
35
Health checking
28
Distributed key-value store
26
Monitoring
23
High-availability
12
Web-UI
10
Token-based acls
6
Gossip clustering
5
Dns server
3
Not Java
1
Docker integration

11
High performance ,easy to generate node specific config
8
Kafka support
8
Java
5
Spring Boot Support
3
Supports extensive distributed IPC
2
Used in ClickHouse
2
Supports DC/OS
1
Embeddable In Java Service
1
Curator
1
Used in Hadoop

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What is Consul?

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

What is 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.

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What are some alternatives to Consul and Zookeeper?

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.

SkyDNS

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).

Ambassador

Map services to arbitrary URLs in a single, declarative YAML file. Configure routes with CORS support, circuit breakers, timeouts, and more. Replace your Kubernetes ingress controller. Route gRPC, WebSockets, or HTTP.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.

Redis

Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.

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