Virtual IPs or floating IPs have long been the workhorse mechanism for providing high-availability for database systems, however floating IP addresses have several limitations that make it problematic in modern data centers and cloud environments, notably that it requires all members be in the same Layer-2 domain. consul is a strongly consistent way of providing high-availability services in Layer-3 environments and provides fail-over across different geographic regions. In this talk we will discuss the benefits, setup, and use of consul for fail-over of PostgreSQL, both in a local data center scenario and a geographic redundancy scenario where databases are split across multiple data centers.