Service Discovery

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How services find and communicate with each other in a dynamic environment. DNS-based discovery, service registries (Consul, Eureka), and platform-native discovery (Kubernetes Services) enable services to locate each other without hardcoded addresses.

Key Properties

• Client-Side Discovery
• Server-Side Discovery
• Service Registry

Related

• Inter-Service Communication (enabled by discovery)

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