[omeze]

This reminds me of the adage “ Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three” [1] to avoid this exact conundrum

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_modular_redundancy#Ch...

[kortex]

Incidentally, I learned the hard way why you never run two instances of Consul (or any Raft powered stack), only 1 or 3. All sorts of wacky state can occur.