How to address microservices by name? Need a DNS?

Question

Domain Name System

A question. There are microservices. I would like to be able to access them from localhost by name, and not by IP. I suspect that DNS is needed, but maybe there is something simpler? To simply drive in instead of:
127.0.0.1:5001 serviceName and its page with metrics would immediately open in the browser.

Is there a solution besides editing hosts ? So that in case of changing the IP of the server there was no need to climb there

Answer 1

Try an external DNS resolver https://nip.io/
Then you will not need to register anything anywhere, but only access the service at an address like
serviceName.127.0.0.1.nip.io:5001
But without access to the Internet, it will not work.

Answer 2

https://www.consul.io/ ?