! Discovery First: ! All services know where the Discovery Service is and fetch the registry. ! Once the Config Service is registered, services will resolve its location and fetch their configuration. ! Drawback: Additional roundtrip necessary during bootstrap in order to fetch the service registry. ! Config First: ! All services know where the Config Service is and fetch their configuration. ! Once they are configured, they register themselves with the Discovery Service. ! Drawback: The Config Server cannot relocate. ! Always prefer Config First Bootstrap (default).