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Running Consul as a global K/V store
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Simplest way to do this with Consul is to run a single "global" datacenter.

This means the timing for the LAN gossip need to be tuned to be WAN appropriate. In consul/config.go (https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/master/consul/config.go#L267) Do something like:

// Make the 'LAN' more forgiving for latency spikes
conf.SerfLANConfig.MemberlistConfig = memberlist.DefaultWANConfig()

Then we need to tune the Raft layer to be extremely forgiving. In that same method I'd add the following:

// Make Raft more WAN friendly
conf.RaftConfig.HeartbeatTimeout = 5000 * time.Millisecond
conf.RaftConfig.ElectionTimeout = 5000 * time.Millisecond
conf.RaftConfig.CommitTimeout = 100 * time.Millisecond
conf.RaftConfig.LeaderLeaseTimeout = 2500 * time.Millisecond
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