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Ooh, that's pretty clever. I wonder if this might be useful for things like managing cloud servers or docker clusters. Apart of course from its more obvious use of managing a set of "personal" machines (I'm picturing a computer lab for example).


Consul can be used as a KV store.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consul_(software)


This thread is about DNS. Nobody asked for suggestions for a KV store.


You have no idea how Consul works?

> Registered services and nodes can be queried using a DNS interface or an HTTP interface

This thread is about Hesiod, a service which provides DNS interface for databases.


Apologies. I didn't realize Consul had a DNS interface and I failed to glance at the Wikipedia article you linked.

That's pretty neat though.




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