Service Discovery

Service discovery patterns with Consul, Kubernetes DNS, Eureka, health checks, and client-side load balancing.

Overview

Service discovery enables services to find and communicate with each other dynamically without hardcoded addresses.

Discovery Patterns

Client-Side Discovery

• Client queries registry
• Client performs load balancing
• Examples: Eureka, Consul client

Server-Side Discovery

• Load balancer queries registry
• Load balancer routes requests
• Examples: Kubernetes Services, AWS ELB