Service Discovery - CI/CD Glossary Definition
Service Discovery: Service discovery is the mechanism by which services find the network location of other services dynamically, instead of relying on hardcoded addresses.
Service discovery is the mechanism by which services find the network location of other services dynamically, instead of relying on hardcoded addresses.
In a dynamic environment, instances come and go and their addresses change. Service discovery keeps a live registry so callers always resolve to a current, healthy endpoint.
In CI
Ephemeral runners register with the control plane on startup and deregister on teardown. Service discovery lets the scheduler dispatch to whatever runners currently exist without a static host list.
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