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		justincormack on April 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flynn: first preview release Consul actually uses Serf rather than implementing it itself. But a good overview, thanks.

Dobbs on April 21, 2014 [–]

Consul actually uses serf for communicating between edge nodes. The central servers (think your zookeeper cluster) use their own implementation of Raft for internal communication.

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