Service Discovery for NGINX Plus Using DNS SRV Records from Consul
Service Discovery for NGINX Plus Using DNS SRV Records from Consul Our previous blog post on service discovery with Consul discussed the importance of service discovery in distributed systems, including service-oriented and microservices architectures. It described how to use NGINX Plus’ on‑the‑fly reconfiguration API to dynamically add or remove load‑balanced servers that are registered with Consul. In this blog post, we will go over another method to dynamically reconfigure your upstream servers in NGINX Plus using Consul’s DNS interface. With this method, NGINX Plus periodically re‑resolves the service name using Consul DNS. If the list of IP addresses associated with the service has changed, NGINX Plus immediately starts load balancing across the updated group of servers. To make it easier to combine upstream reconfiguration in NGINX Plus with Consul DNS, we’ve created a sample demo, consul-dns-srv-demo, with step‑by‑step instructions for creating the configuration described in [ more… ]
