# Service discovery plug-in?

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/service-discovery-plug-in/574>\
**Category:** Rancher 1.x\
**Created:** [September 28, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/service-discovery-plug-in/574 "2015-09-28T14:14:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![ebishop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9dc877/32.png) [@ebishop](https://forums.suse.com/u/ebishop)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/service-discovery-plug-in/574/1 "2015-09-28T14:14:33Z")

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My team uses consul for service discovery. Can we plug Consul into Rancher, or would we just use Conul manage it ourselves? Or is Rancher discovery really Consul under the hood? 😄

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**Author:** ![vincent](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/vincent/32/7156_2.png) [@vincent](https://forums.suse.com/u/vincent)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/service-discovery-plug-in/574/2 "2015-09-28T15:59:13Z")

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Rancher metadata and dns are not Consul, so you manage it yourself if you want it. @cloudnautique has something to import rancher-metadata into consul or etcd I think?

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**Author:** ![cloudnautique](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/cloudnautique/32/26_2.png) [@cloudnautique](https://forums.suse.com/u/cloudnautique)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/service-discovery-plug-in/574/3 "2015-09-28T16:33:37Z")

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We have a confd backend which reads metadata and creates template files. I have also been playing with a little tool that can take a yaml file and create key values to be inserted into a data store… I really only tried etcd. Just out of curiosity which features of Consul are you using?