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Automate service failover
Create a scalable infrustrutureinfrastructure: deploy services independent on location. Services should auto-register and be discoverable, and auto-deregister.
Minimise downtime through redundancy
Automate service recovery tolerant of hardware failure or outages
Structure
Each server will run the consul agent and include a config listing the services it runs and how to monitor them (to test if they are serviceable). This should be maintained in puppet.
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