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Consul is pretty neat, and in my experiments with it, it's really easy to spin up and modify a cluster. It seems like they really thought through the procedures. Another mature option for service discovery that this port doesn't mention is AirBnB's SmartStack: https://github.com/airbnb/synapse and https://github.com/airbnb/nerve. Here's a talk from DockerCon about using SmartStack and Docker: http://blog.docker.com/2014/07/dockercon-video-building-a-sm...

i am constantly impressed at the hashicorp guys, who continue to release great tools. they actually released serf on the same day as we released nerve and synapse, which comprise airbnb's service registration and discovery platform, smartstack. see https://github.com/airbnb/nerve and https://github.com/airbnb/synapse that said, as i wrote my blog post on service discovery ( http://nerds.airbnb.com/smartstack-service-discovery-cloud/ ), dns does not make for the greatest interface to service discovery because many apps and libraries cache DNS looksups. an http interface might be safer, but then you have to build a connector for this into every one of your apps. i still feel that smartstack is a better approach because it is transparent. haproxy also provides us with great introspection for what's happening in the infrastructure -- who is t