Day 2: Datacenter Operations

2 hr 31 min12 tutorials

Get the most out of your Consul datacenter with advanced operations such as advanced networking, ops automation, security, outage recovery, and troubleshooting.

Autopilot

Use Autopilot features to monitor the Raft cluster, introduce stable servers, and clean up dead servers.

12 min

Enterprise

Automate Upgrades with Consul Enterprise

Upgrade your Consul datacenters without downtime using automated upgrades. This functionally is provided through the Enterprise feature of autopilot. Autopilot allows you to add new servers directly to the datacenter and waits until you have enough servers running the new version to perform a leadership change and demote the old servers as "non-voters".

14 min

Enterprise

Provide Fault Tolerance with Redundancy Zones

Use Consul’s redundancy zones to provide high availability in the case of server failure through the Enterprise feature of autopilot. Autopilot allows you to add “non-voting” servers to your datacenter that will be promoted to the "voting" status in case of voting server failure.

12 min

Outage Recovery

Understand how to recover from a Consul outage due to a majority of server nodes in a datacenter being lost.

14 min

Disaster Recovery for the Primary Datacenter

Recover from losing the primary datacenter in a federated environment.

14 min

Enterprise

Partition Datacenters with Network Segments

Set up multiple segments in your datacenter, and configure a prepared query to limit service discovery to the services in the local agent's network segment.

13 min

Enterprise