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Herding (Apache) Camels with HashiCorp Consul

A fully managed platform to automate infrastructure on any cloud with HashiCorp products. Here’s how to keep track of your Apache Camel services running throughout a deployment, and enable them to communicate with one another in a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environment.

In this post, I’ll show you how to use Camel with HashiCorp Consul to address this challenge.

This means Consul is ready to act as our service registry, meaning all we need to do is tell it which services to register and monitor.

With health checks, it’s easy to see which Camel endpoints are healthy and alive in Consul, adding to the service registry functionality of Consul.