Def missing KONG, open-source microservice management layer http://github.com/mashape/kong
Here's how you would deploy it in microservices-infrastructure:
1. You'd deploy the cassandra mesos framework, giving you HA cassandra. Instead of setting IPs, you'd connect to this as cassandra.service.consul
2. You'd launch a Kong container in marathon. It would show up in dns as kong.service.consul for other apps to find, so you don't have to hard code IPs in your config.
Edit: We've opened an issue to make this an example app https://github.com/CiscoCloud/microservices-infrastructure/i...