SEP 26 2018 MITCHELL HASHIMOTO
We're releasing a new feature from the HashiCorp Consul + Kubernetes announcement every week.
This week we're releasing the service catalog sync functionality to sync Kubernetes services to the Consul catalog and vice versa. This enables cross-cluster or platform service discovery using the native service discovery tooling expected. Additionally, a central catalog allows organizations to gracefully migrate workloads into or out of Kubernetes.
Kubernetes to Consul
Kubernetes services are actively synced to the Consul catalog without any changes to existing Kubernetes service resources. Consul users can then discover and connect to these services using Consul DNS or the HTTP API.
The most common use case is to enable non-Kubernetes workloads to discover and connect to workloads runnin