What is the difference between Consul and Eureka service registry? Is consul capable of load balancing? Is it better to migrate from eureka to consul? If yes what benefits I'll get?
I'm trying to migrate my project to springboot 3 , but not sure about service registry already I'm using eureka but project team advised to use consul?
Ali mjz
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It depends on your project specification. consul has a other features such as configuration management which means you can put your properties in consul and update the configuration, and it can be applied to your application without restart. Load balancing can be implemented through consul too. below is some of key features of Hashicorp Consul:
Its totally depends on your need. If you need easy setup with spring-cloud and your project requires mid-level load balancing then you can go with eureka service. If you need high-level load balancing and more scalability then you can go with Consul.