Day 2: Datacenter Operations

2 hr 53 min14 tutorials

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

Upgrade Multiple Federated Consul Datacenters

Upgrade your federated Consul datacenters without downtime and ensuring federation and ACL replication is mantained.

14 min

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.

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.

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

Federate Multiple Datacenters with Network Areas

Use network areas for advanced datacenter federation. Network areas specify a relationship between a pair of Consul datacenters.

12 min

Add & Remove Consul Servers

There are several methods for adding or removing servers from the Consul datacenter. Learn the best practices for each method.

11 min

Troubleshoot Common Consul Issues

Find and fix problems with your Consul datacenter using built-in and external tools.

16 min

Common Consul Error Messages

Find solutions to common error messages when working with Consul.

7 min

Rotate Gossip Encryption Keys in Consul

Rotate gossip encryption keys in your Consul datacenter to keep datacenter secure.

12 min

Enterprise

Authenticate Users with Single Sign-On (SSO) and Auth0

Use Auth0 as an OIDC auth method in Consul Enterprise for single sign-on (SSO).

14 min

Enterprise

Capture Consul Events with Audit Logging

Ensure regulatory and organizational compliance by capturing event data with Consul audit logging.

8 min

Infrastructure

Security

Networking

Applications

Upgrade Multiple Federated Consul Datacenters

Autopilot

Automate Upgrades with Consul Enterprise

Provide Fault Tolerance with Redundancy Zones

Outage Recovery

Disaster Recovery for the Primary Datacenter

Partition Datacenters with Network Segments

Federate Multiple Datacenters with Network Areas

Add & Remove Consul Servers

Troubleshoot Common Consul Issues

Common Consul Error Messages

Rotate Gossip Encryption Keys in Consul

Authenticate Users with Single Sign-On (SSO) and Auth0

Capture Consul Events with Audit Logging