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by jordanbeiber 1690 days ago
What you’re describing took place with on-prem iron as well - nothing cloud about it. At all.

Service discovery is in part DNS with low ttl, but there’s a part of it that ties in to configuration management, monitoring and observability as well.

If you “update dns” that means you’re doing a part of what consul does (only f ex nomad does it for you). Nothing magic, but you still “need it”.

Tags and metadata is a large part of it though, as well as configuring things automatically based on state of the SD and K/V.

In the end - whatever works, I guess.