Chapter 5: Little Bo Peep Lost Her Service

This is it! The moment we've all been waiting for! All of those horrible dad jokes and puns are about to pay off as we actually start putting all of this tremendous knowledge to use! At the very foundation of every Consul use case is the discovery and sharing of service information. We're ready to focus our energies more on why use Consul, instead of what is Consul. To understand the why for this initial use case, let's look at the age-old nursery rhyme of Little Bo Peep who lost her sheep. However, as you may have guessed, instead of losing sheep, we're losing our service!

Little Bo Peep is tending to her flock of sheep, all free on the hillside. It is easy for her to monitor the sheep while they are confined to their pen. They can only roam so far, and as long as she controls those gates of the pen, there's no problem! As time goes on, she starts to learn that her sheep can provide much more bountiful wool, not...