Support for exposing Service data in KV store? - (consul/confd integration)

[johnrengelman]

So a little background. We were looking to use Consul to do service discovery in our architecture and we wanted to use it to configure the backend servers for a number of HAProxy instances. For this, we were looking to use confd. However confd only integrates with the KV store in consul.

We tried to add a feature to support exposing the /v1/health endpoint data to confd but after long discussion it was ultimately rejected as it strayed too far from the base concepts of confd (kelseyhightower/confd#102).

So my question is...is there any interest or possibility of enabling a mode where the service health information is exposed automatically in the KV store in consul? Is it a feature that if provided via PR, would be accepted? Or is it something that is just too different from the core concepts of consul.

[mohitarora]

+1 for this feature. We are also using confd. It will be great if services are available via K/V store.

[salehe]

+1. It's been a long time that I'm thinking of requesting this. Thanks @johnrengelman

[armon]

We just blogged about our tool consul-haproxy https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-haproxy here: http://www.hashicorp.com/blog/haproxy-with-consul.html.

While I wrote this specifically thinking about HAProxy, I think there is room for us to fork this and make it more generic.

[johnrengelman]

Perfect...That actually should cover our use case ATM, but some general abstraction would be great!

[armon]

Closing since consul-haproxy handles this