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		stormbrew on April 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Consul, a new tool for service discovery and confi... "Serf is a service discovery and orchestration tool..." "... However, Serf does not provide any high-level features such as service discovery..." Hm...

armon on April 17, 2014 [–]

That can probably be worded better. Serf operates at a node level abstraction, while Consul operates at a service level. In fact, Serf is used in Consul to power the discovery of other nodes.

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