Distributed Locks with Consul and Golang

Distributed Locks with Consul and Golang(medium.com)

3 points by mthenw 9 years ago | 2 comments

slap_shot 9 years ago |

Great read. Did you look at etcd[0][1] when considering a distributed kv store/locking mechanism? If so, what were the pros/cons of each and what lead you to consul?

[0] https://github.com/coreos/etcd [1] https://github.com/coreos/etcd/tree/master/client

mthenw 9 years ago | |

Thanks!

I was using Consul because we had that already deployed. After quick research looks like etcd client doesn't provide nice abstraction for creating dist locks. I found [1] and [2] though. Definitely it's doable with etcd.

[1] https://github.com/datawisesystems/etcd-lock [2] https://github.com/ORBAT/node-etcd-lock