Consul Virtual Day 2021: Consul Global Scale Benchmark

The team recently completed a global scale benchmark to test the control plane scalability of Consul, and the results were incredible: 5 Consul servers were able to deliver control plane updates to 172,000+ service instances in under 1 second in a Consul cluster of 10,000 virtual machines. In this session, we’ll go over the experiment, including the architecture design and how we set the benchmarks, as well as review the control plane and data plan results.