I had a distaste for Nomad before the rug pull[1], but hopefully no serious person would voluntarily choose Nomad after that stunt. Doubly so that going with the Nomad ecosystem mandates self-hosting as one cannot $(aws elastic-nomad create-cluster). I was similarly surprised that HashiCorp didn't even offer "you pay for compute but we will administer your control plane" since both the "community" and the "enterprise" links from the front page both say "self-managed"
I will be super curious to see if IBM Cloud actually does ship $(ibm-cloud-cli create-nomad)
1: I also didn't realize they rug pulled Consul, too; that's just cruel https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.20.5/LICENSE
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Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
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Consul
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Documentation and Tutorials: [https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul]
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Consul provides several key features:
Multi-Datacenter - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can
support any number of regions without complex configuration.
Service Mesh - Consul Service Mesh enables secure service-to-service
communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization. Applications
can use sidecar proxies in a service mesh configuration to establish TLS
connections for inbound and outbound connections with Transparent Proxy.
API Gateway - Consul API Gateway manages access to services within Consul Service Mesh,
allow users to define traffic and authorization policies to services deployed within the mesh.
Service Discovery - Consul makes it simple for services to register
themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface.
External services such as SaaS providers can be registered as well.
Health Checking - Health Checking enables Consul to quickly alert
operators about any issues in a cluster. The integration with service
discovery prevents routing traffic to unhealthy hosts and enables service
level circuit breakers.
Dynamic App Configuration - An HTTP API that allows users to store indexed objects within Consul,
for storing configuration parameters and application metadata.
Consul runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows and includes an
optional browser based UI. A commercial version
called Consul Enterprise is also
available.
Please note: We take Consul's security and our users' trust very seriously. If you
believe you have found a security issue in Consul, please responsibly disclose
by contacting us at security@hashicorp.com.
Quick Start
A few quick start guides are available on the Consul website:
Standalone binary install: https://learn.hashicorp.com/collections/consul/get-started-vms
Minikube install: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/kubernetes-minikube
Kind install: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/kubernetes-kind
Kubernetes install: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/kubernetes-deployment-guide
Deploy HCP Consul: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/hcp-gs-deploy
Documentation
Full, comprehensive documentation is available on the Consul website: https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/docs
Contributing
Thank you for your interest in contributing! Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md
for guidance. For contributions specifically to the browser based UI, please
refer to the UI's README.md
for guidance.
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
24 sources> Are people still using Kyoto Cabinet in new projects?
Cloudflare used to use Kyoto Cabinet[1] and moved to LMDB[1] in 2020; other implementations that I'm familiar with (but don't have a link to share) also use LMDB.
> Are people still using DBM-style storage generally?
It's fairly common in these scenarios, as well as the underlying key-value store for popular software like Consul[3].
[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/kyoto-tycoon-secure-replication/
[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-quicksilver-configur...
[3] https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8442
In Rearchitecting: Redis to SQLitehttps://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/12080 - this should be the Consul issue that brought down Roblox
In Fly.io Status – Consul cluster outageConsul is much older than 4 years old (public availability in 2014; 1.0 release in 2017, with a lot of sites using 0.x in production long before). And the fact that they didn't encounter this pathological case until Q4 2021 tells us that they got a lot of useful life out of BoltDB. They also were planning to switch over to bbolt back in 2020[1].
The developers at Hashicorp are top-tier, and this doesn't substantially change their reputation in my eyes. Hindsight is always 20/20.
Let's end this thread; blaming doesn't help anyone.
[1] https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8442
In Roblox October Outage PostmortemI think they just made the switch to the fork that does contain the freelist improvement in https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/11720
Took a major incident to swallow your pride? (consul, powered by go.etcd.io/bbolt)
In Roblox October Outage PostmortemI have been using this: https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/
I particularly like the consul changelog https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md which follows it.
In Ask HN: What are some examples of good changelogs?Yes those are totally different. You can have a trademark of the same name for different things in different industries. This is allowable under USPTO guidance. However, these are both software, so your scenario isn't really comparable.
Let's compare:
https://github.com/consul/consul - 83 watchers, 758 stars, 486 forks
https://github.com/hashicorp/consul - 843 watchers, 14,686 stars, 2,548 forks
If any of those two is not going to last forever, it is this the one with a smaller community.
In Consul – Open Government and E-Participation Web SoftwareHashicorp has a registered trademark on software named Consul[1] and started working on it in late 2013[2].
This is not a good name for software if it is already trademarked and was started before this project (by ~2 years).
[1] http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4804:z7n...
[2] https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/commit/0a7996bc4f504894d...
In Consul – Open Government and E-Participation Web Software2013 was when Hashicorp's Consul was started: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/commit/0a7996bc4f504894d...
In Consul – Open Government and E-Participation Web SoftwareI know Consul was using https://github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata [1] a few years ago.
Personally I'm not a fan but I can totally see the appeal.
1. https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/1543
In Goodbye Python, Hello GoNetwork people who understand BGP are cheaper and easier to find than someone who actually knows how Consul/raft works. You might think you know how consul works, but do you really? Consul and raft have caused several high profile outages -- including at places full of smart people like Amazon. If Amazon can't do it right, what chance do you have?
Especially when there are several-year old bugs open against consul, where it just completely loses consensus and can't deal with losing a single node(0)
0: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/993#issuecomment-...
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