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website: Clarify the Serf vs Consul

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# Consul vs. Serf
[Serf](http://www.serfdom.io) is a service discovery and orchestration tool and is the only
[Serf](http://www.serfdom.io) is a node discovery and orchestration tool and is the only
tool discussed so far that is built on an eventually consistent gossip model,
with no centralized servers. It provides a number of features, including group
membership, failure detection, event broadcasts and a query mechanism. However,
Serf does not provide any high-level features such as service discovery, health
checking or key/value storage.
checking or key/value storage. To clarify, the discovery feature of Serf is at a node
level, while Consul provides a service and node level abstraction.
Consul is a complete system providing all of those features. In fact, the internal
[gossip protocol](/docs/internals/gossip.html) used within Consul, is powered by