Consul DNS with cluster peering advice

Consul
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I’m setting up multiple Consul environments:

  • dev
  • staging
  • prod

The dev and staging environments will have a cluster each in AWS
The prod environments will have a cluster in each datacenter

They are all using the consul domain
I am trying to workout what is the best setup for DNS resolution for my hosts…

  • systemd-resolv/dnsmasq enabled and setup on all clients to forward consul domain to localhost:8600
  • different domains per environment and setting up the datacenter BIND servers to be in the cluster and forward that domain tolocalhost:8600 … but, what if multiple environments in the same datacenter (dev/staging)
  • suggestions/ideas?