Serf uses a gossip protocol to broadcast messages to the cluster. This page documents the details of this internal protocol.
The gossip protocol used by Serf is based on a modified version of the SWIM (Scalable Weakly-consistent Infection-style Process Group Membership) protocol.
Serf relies on an efficient and lightweight gossip protocol to communicate with nodes. The Serf agents periodically exchange messages with each other.
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Aug 5, 2019 ˇ Consul is all about your service—and it's built upon Serf, which is all about your nodes. Memberlist—that's your library that implements SWIM. A ...
An efficient and lightweight gossip protocol is used to communicate with other nodes. Serf can detect node failures and notify the rest of the cluster. An event ...
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May 16, 2020 ˇ We currently use serf mainly to build a distributed list of the nodes in the network, and acknowledge nodes that enter and leave the network.
Jan 11, 2024 ˇ memberlist is a library for managing cluster membership. It implements the gossip protocol. serf depends on memberlist. Even the serf.Config ...
Oct 12, 2017 ˇ Jon Currey, Director of Research at HashiCorp Consul, Nomad and Serf use the SWIM gossip ...
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Jan 14, 2021 ˇ Serf is really useful and much, much easier to set up and run than Consul or Zookeeper; you can bake it into a Dockerfile and forget about it.