i would encourage you to consider a circuit breaker pattern like hystrix
which will have graceful degradation if a remote endpoint is unavailable
because it has not started yet, has too many failures, is network
segmented, etc..

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Sumanth Yamala <Sumanth.Yamala(a)sas.com>
wrote:

No. My endpoints don't change. I envision having a number of 12 factor
stateless applications getting deployed using CF push (java buildpacks).
Some of these stateless apps need to talk to each other and so the need for
service discovery.


Currently we use Consul - i.e. each 12 factor app registers itself with
Consul and apps needs to re-discover another app. We feed in the Consul
end point to all the apps as an environment variable.


Using environment variables has a dependency issue that certain
applications that have not been started yet, would not be visible to
applications that have already started...but a HashMap of apps and its
route could itself serve as a repository to discover other applications as
long as the app can get access to the hash map or we persist this hash map
as a KV store in Consul.


Thanks all for your inputs.


Sumanth



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*Subject:* Re: [cf-dev] service discovery

can you describe the architecture of your applications? do the
endpoints change often after some mircoservices have been started?

your app needs some way to look up other network endpoints it needs.
there are several ways to do this.

* use environment variables - which is provided just-in-time when the
container starts - this might be a URL for example, that routes to the CF
router that might be bound to several different apps, but all the source
app needs to know is the destination route represented by a FQDN and
optional context path

* use a service - either user a service broker or provided service that
provides information to the apps that bind to it, might be a URL and
authentication information, this information is also put in the apps env
variables

* use something like the spring cloud config service that can distribute
information to clients dynamically post container start [1]

* use something like the spring cloud eureka service from netflix oss
that can provide dynamic information to clients using netflix ribbon, also
takes in updates post container start [2] [3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJvReWt2jLc
[2] http://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-netflix/spring-cloud-netflix.html
[3]
http://blog.pivotal.io/pivotal-cloud-foundry/features/deploying-microservice-architectures-with-pivotal-cloud-foundry

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 7:47 PM, Sumanth Yamala <Sumanth.Yamala(a)sas.com>
wrote:

micro-service architecture.


Yes - would like for applications to discover the URL of other
applications deployed in CF . Consul is what I use right now - was
wondering if CloudFoundry had something in this space.


Service brokers I thought are only for stateful components like a
database, Consul..can it be used for stateless components as well?

​

Thanks,

Sumanth


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*Sent:* Thursday, June 25, 2015 10:35 PM
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*Subject:* Re: [cf-dev] service discovery

What's the requirement that your application need to discover other
application? Did you mean somethibg like say microservice architecture and
you want to know the url available and any metadat / property of some
service / app you depend on? One way is via service broker. You can use
also use consul and token to do ACL based resource retrieval/discovery and
I have seen this apptoach (actually today at a local tech talk).
On Thursday, June 25, 2015, Sumanth Yamala <Sumanth.Yamala(a)sas.com>
wrote:

Hi,


In CF space - the applications that get deployed in warden containers
- how do they discover other applications ? Should we pick a third party
like Consul or Eureka, or does CF provide an alternate approach.


Thanks in advance.


Thanks,

Sumanth

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