Service Discovery
Service Discovery
📖 Definition
Service Discovery is a mechanism in microservices architecture that automatically detects and locates service instances. Services register with a registry center upon startup, and other services obtain available instance addresses through the registry center to achieve dynamic service calls.
🔗 How Higress Uses This
Higress integrates various service discovery mechanisms such as Nacos, Consul, and Kubernetes, supporting automatic synchronization of service instance information without manual maintenance of upstream service addresses.
💡 Examples
- 1 Nacos provides service registration and discovery functionality
- 2 Kubernetes Service implements service discovery through DNS
- 3 Consul supports service discovery across multiple data centers
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❓ FAQ
What is Service Discovery?
Service Discovery is a mechanism in microservices architecture that automatically detects and locates service instances. Services register with a registry center upon startup, and other services obtain available instance addresses through the registry center to achieve dynamic service calls.
How does Higress support Service Discovery?
Higress integrates various service discovery mechanisms such as Nacos, Consul, and Kubernetes, supporting automatic synchronization of service instance information without manual maintenance of upstream service addresses.
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