How to visualize dynamic microservice architecture running with Consul?

Using Consul, you could allow your teams decentrally deploy and run microservices with dynamic dependencies.

It is also possible to list the services: /catalog/service/:service

Now, how to assess these dependencies automatically if the architecture grows dynamically to get a visual representation of service inter-dependencies?

I recommend that you take a look at the NetworkX library for Python. With a script you could query Consul and build a graph of linked nodes which could be rendered to an image file and served with a web server. A Flask microservice for this would be fairly simple to set up and provide a very useful visualization of your microservices spiderweb.

StackExchange DevOps Q#1419, answer score: 3