Hello there.
I work for a big company that decided to deploy a multi-site Consul cluster for active/active configurations, and we desire to deploy Splunk search clusters under it, which require session persistence.
Now, we know that Consul, natively, doesn’t support session persistence/“sticky sessions”. Although, we realized that HAProxy can integrate directly into Consul, as either a sidecar proxy or a standalone service.
We tend to go towards the sidecar option, since we search an active/active solution, but we’re not sure how it’s really implemented, and there’s not so much information about it online about either options.
Did anyone here implemented Consul as a part of a session-persistent solution for an active/active application? If so, do you have any ideas about how to implement it (either with HAProxy or another open source tool)?