Andrew Dorokhov
Service discovery is the process of giving a client the information it needs to connect to the best available instance of a service.
etcd
etcd is a distributed key-value store. Many discovery tools use it as a backing registry.
SkyDNS
open_in_new SkyDNS provides DNS-based service discovery on top of etcd.
Consul
open_in_new Consul from HashiCorp is a distributed key-value store with strong health checking and a built-in DNS server.
Other tools
- ZooKeeper
- SmartStack
- Eureka
- WeaveDNS
- docker-discover
Classic Docker network modes
Four primary modes: bridge, host, container, and none.
See Networking for CNM drivers and modern user-defined networks.
Docker networks and services
Modern Docker adds first-class network and service objects (especially in Swarm and Compose).
Multi-host networking
- Overlay (built into Swarm)
- Weave
- Flannel
- Project Calico
Related topics
- Networking — CNM, bridge, overlay
- Swarm — built-in service scheduling
- Orchestration — cluster managers