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Consul Showcase

This directory contains the Consul showcase used for our talk on Consul as infrastructure component for service discovery.

Showcase description

The cluster in this showcase provides a time service which allows you to retrive the current time stamp as JSON document via REST. The cluster contains three instances of this timeservice behind a single HAProxy instance, used to balance the requests to the timeservice.

Requirements to run the showcase

To run the custer you need the following tools on your local machine:

• Vagrant 1.6.3

• Oracle VirtualBox 4.3

• Bash 3 or 4

• Wget

Note	This showcase was develop on a MacBook and is not tested on an different plattform.