"Consul agent takes part in Raft, so doing infrastructure discovery in your whole environment means every system takes part in Raft"
Consul agent runs in two modes - master and client. From the Consul Docs:
"Client - A client is an agent that forwards all RPCs to a server. The client is relatively stateless. The only background activity a client performs is taking part in the LAN gossip pool. This has a minimal resource overhead and consumes only a small amount of network bandwidth."
The client doesn't take part in the consensus protocol. This seems to be the OPs whole reason for choosing etcd over Consul and I don't believe the OPs claim is correct.
"Consul agent takes part in Raft, so doing infrastructure discovery in your whole environment means every system takes part in Raft"
Consul agent runs in two modes - master and client. From the Consul Docs:
"Client - A client is an agent that forwards all RPCs to a server. The client is relatively stateless. The only background activity a client performs is taking part in the LAN gossip pool. This has a minimal resource overhead and consumes only a small amount of network bandwidth."
The client doesn't take part in the consensus protocol. This seems to be the OPs whole reason for choosing etcd over Consul and I don't believe the OPs claim is correct.