Consul 0.2 UI Demo

This is exactly what I was waiting to see, great front-end, linked to a well thought-out and well-documented back end. Great work guys

To elaborate a little more on what I think makes the front end "great": I think it's very simple. I contemplated making something like this simply because I think tools like nagios,etc are swiss army knives, BUT they look really ugly. I don't see why we can't have some beauty in monitoring.

I think that beauty, and function actually come together well in the interface as it stands now (I know it's not complete) -- I immediately understood where to look, what to click. While the everyday-user is not going to be unfamiliar with the interface, I also think an experienced user could benefit from having the clarity of a detail view, and individual machine view (the right and left respectively).

One place I can think of that might not be ideal for the kind of design is if you want to know aggregates/historical data of a certain data center/machine -- but I think this could easily be remedied by adding a stats page that is made to show that kind of broad data specifically (or even keep it out of the core codebase, and just have it be a very very popular plugin -- small tools ftw)

The changelog for 0.2 has more details: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v0.2.0/CHANGELOG.md...

After last seeing Consul posted 2 weeks ago, and playing with Docker for deploying my application, it got some gears turning. I think the two would be a great combo. Though I like the philosophy of immutable containers that Docker asserts, where if the topography needs to be reogranized (with linking containers [1]), you can just tear them down and spin them back up in a second. In practice this is kind of a pain, and a very top down view. Using Consul would make it very nice for snapping together infrastructure, with more robustness provided, i.e. health checks & discovery.

As a side note, I played around with Ubuntu's Juju a bit, and they also allow you to change an instance's configuration during runtime. But it's from a top down perspective, than distributed.

[1] http://docs.docker.io/use/working_with_links_names/

Interesting. I definitely think service discovery and such are going to become a lot more popular in the near future.

This is super nice, I have been looking for a modern Nagios to monitor a few clusters.

What are the requirements? What OS? What dependencies?

I am consulio heh heh

UI isn't responsive to my not really that small laptop screen. I have to horizontally scroll to see everything when there is little to see. There is too much whitespace everywhere.