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Use case

Dynamic host discovery

Automate service discovery and access configuration as ephemeral workloads are deployed or changed — currently available for AWS and Azure.

Challenge

Managing dynamic and ephemeral infrastructure can be organizationally complex with traditional IP-based solutions

Traditionally, connecting to remote hosts and services requires knowledge of the endpoint’s connection information (e.g. the IP address and port of the service). This creates complexity when managing the onboarding of new resources at scale or dealing with dynamic services whose connection information frequently changes.

Solution

Automate the process of onboarding new or changed infrastructure resources

Boundary includes a feature called Dynamic host catalog to automatically discover, import, and update dynamic and ephemeral virtual machines reducing administrative overhead. 

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