Deploy HashiCorp Consul service on Azure as a fully managed service.
Consul is a networking tool that provides a fully featured service-mesh control plane and service discovery. Consul also includes a key-value store for service configuration. Learn how to perform common Consul operations locally.
Learn how to setup a development environment for testing Consul service mesh on Kubernetes before going into production. Get hands on experience deploying service sidecar proxies and securing services with mTLS.
7 minConsul can be deployed as a service mesh control plane that provides service-to-service connection authorization and encryption using mutual TLS. Learn how to configure Consul as your Kubernetes service mesh to encrypt and control traffic between services.
6 minConsul can be deployed as a service mesh control plane that provides service-to-service connection authorization and encryption using mutual TLS. In this tutorial you will learn how to configure Consul as your Kubernetes service mesh to encrypt and control traffic between services.
6 minDeploy applications on Kubernetes using Consul service mesh to encrypt and control traffic between services with mTLS.
6 minDefine intentions to introduce a zero-trust network security approach in your Kubernetes cluster.
8 minGet an overview of observability and L7 traffic management features for Consul service mesh.
Review production best practices for all Kubernetes installation types and learn cloud-specific configurations for deploying Consul on different cloud providers. Practice registering, securing, and observing services deployed with Kubernetes.
8 minDeploy Consul locally on Minikube using the official Helm chart, and learn how to access Consul. Finally, configure Consul Connect service mesh for services in your Kubernetes cluster.
30 minDeploy Consul on AKS with the official Helm chart and deploy two services into Consul's service mesh.
30 minDeploy Consul on GKE with the official Helm chart and learn how to manage your datacenter with the Consul UI, CLI, and API.
30 minDeploy Consul on Amazon EKS with the official Helm chart and learn how to manage your datacenter with the Consul UI, CLI, and API.
15 minLearn recommended practices and reference architecture for deploying Consul service mesh on Kubernetes.
Get a preview of the new HashiCorp managed Consul Service (HCS) available on Azure in public beta. Review steps to create a new HCS datacenter on Azure and how to use VMs or Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) as Consul clients.
15 minHashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure enables Microsoft Azure users to natively provision HashiCorp-managed Consul servers in any supported Azure region directly through the Azure Marketplace.
10 minRetrieve HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure data including server connection information, Consul client configuration, and Consul certificates. The data you retrieve in this tutorial will enable you to add Consul clients to HCS on Azure.
15 minConnect an Azure VM with a configured Consul client to your managed HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure.
15 minConnect Consul clients deployed in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure.
Learn how to setup a development environment for testing and troubleshooting Consul before going into production.
Review guide for the HashiCorp Certified: Consul Associate exam.
7 minConsul can be deployed as a service mesh control plane that provides service-to-service connection authorization and encryption using mutual TLS. Learn how to configure Consul as your Kubernetes service mesh to encrypt and control traffic between services.
6 minConsul can be deployed as a service mesh control plane that provides service-to-service connection authorization and encryption using mutual TLS. In this tutorial you will learn how to configure Consul as your Kubernetes service mesh to encrypt and control traffic between services.
6 minDeploy applications on Kubernetes using Consul service mesh to encrypt and control traffic between services with mTLS.
6 minDefine intentions to introduce a zero-trust network security approach in your Kubernetes cluster.
8 minGet an overview of observability and L7 traffic management features for Consul service mesh.
8 minDeploy Consul locally on Minikube using the official Helm chart, and learn how to access Consul. Finally, configure Consul Connect service mesh for services in your Kubernetes cluster.
30 minDeploy Consul on AKS with the official Helm chart and deploy two services into Consul's service mesh.
30 minDeploy Consul on GKE with the official Helm chart and learn how to manage your datacenter with the Consul UI, CLI, and API.
30 minDeploy Consul on Amazon EKS with the official Helm chart and learn how to manage your datacenter with the Consul UI, CLI, and API.
15 minLearn recommended practices and reference architecture for deploying Consul service mesh on Kubernetes.
15 minHashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure enables Microsoft Azure users to natively provision HashiCorp-managed Consul servers in any supported Azure region directly through the Azure Marketplace.
10 minRetrieve HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure data including server connection information, Consul client configuration, and Consul certificates. The data you retrieve in this tutorial will enable you to add Consul clients to HCS on Azure.
15 minConnect an Azure VM with a configured Consul client to your managed HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure.
15 minConnect Consul clients deployed in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure.
Learn about Consul 1.8 features including mesh, terminating, and ingress gateways.
Learn to deploy your first production-ready datacenter. If you are responsible for setting up and maintaining a healthy datacenter, this path will help you do so successfully.
5 minDeploy your first production-ready datacenter with Consul.
8 minLearn recommended practices and a reference architecture for HashiCorp Consul production deployments.
8 minDeploy your first three-server Consul datacenter in accordance with the Reference Architecture.
10 minUse the snapshot tool for backing up and restoring Consul data.
10 minLearn how to run Consul as a service on Windows servers.
Continue securing and configuring your first production-ready datacenter. This path includes a series of guides for securing the cluster and setting up networking.
5 minNow that you have deployed your first Consul datacenter, secure it.
10 minSecure gossip communication between Consul agents for a single datacenter.
12 minSecure RPC and consensus communication by creating and deploying certificates to Consul agents.
16 minSecure your production Consul datacenter with ACLs.
13 minDiscover the minimum privileges required to complete operations within your Consul datacenter and how to manage access using the operator-only implementation method.
Learn how to register services with Consul DNS, including services on external nodes and with Terraform.
12 minUse Consul's prepared query capability, to automate geo failover policies for services in the case that one of multiple connected datacenters is unavailable.
17 minRegister and health check services with Consul, even when they are running on nodes without a co-located Consul agent.
20 minRegister external services with Consul using the Terraform Consul provider.
15 minUse Consul's health checks capability to monitor datacenter health, and learn how it is used by the service discovery components to route traffic away from unhealthy hosts.
Consul service mesh secures service-to-service communication with service proxies and mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS). Learn how to allow or restrict east-west traffic using Connect.
12 minGain hands-on experience with Consul service mesh using internal proxies or Envoy as sidecar proxies.
12 minUnderstand best practices for running Consul Connect service mesh in production.
15 minSplit layer-7 traffic, using Envoy proxies configured by Consul, to roll out a new version of a service. You can use this method for zero-downtime, blue-green, and canary deployments.
30 minConnect two services across datacenters using Consul Connect service mesh, intention replication, WAN gossip federation, and mesh gateways.
12 minUnderstand how terminating gateways, Consul's egress proxies, can provide connectivity to external destinations by terminating Consul Connect mTLS connections, enforcing Consul intentions, and forwarding requests to appropriate destination services.
Learn more about Service Configuration and Consul KV.
12 minProgrammatically render configuration files from a variety of locations including Consul KV with Consul Template
10 minBuild client-side leader elections for service instances, using Consul.
12 minImplement a distributed semaphore using the Consul KV store.
Get the most out of your Consul datacenter with advanced operations such as advanced networking, ops automation, security, outage recovery, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
12 minDiscover Consul health and server health metrics to make sure your datacenter is healthy and establish a baseline for monitoring.
12 minUse Telegraf to visualize Consul metrics.
12 minThere are several methods for adding or removing servers from the Consul datacenter. Learn the best practices for each method.
8 minUse Autopilot features to monitor the Raft cluster, introduce stable servers, and clean up dead servers.
15 minUnderstand how to recover from a Consul outage due to a majority of server nodes in a datacenter being lost.
Enhance security of existing Consul datacenters with advanced configurations including ACL replication and TLS configuration.
15 minConfigure tokens, policies, and roles to work across multiple datacenters.
15 minUnderstand strategies for migrating from the legacy ACL system after upgrading to Consul 1.4+.
35 minSecure RPC, consensus, and HTTP communication by creating and deploying certificates to Consul agents using OpenSSL as the CA.
15 minSecure RPC and consensus communication by creating and deploying certificates to Consul agents on an existing datacenter.
Share datacenter access across multiple teams with Consul Enterprise namespaces.
Learn how Consul integrates with popular load balancing technologies such as Nginx, HAProxy, and F5.
12 minUse Consul to configure F5 BIG-IP nodes and server pools based on changes in Consul service discovery.
12 minConfigure NGINX Plus' load balancer automatically with service discovery data, via a native integration with Consul.
12 minUse Consul template to update NGINX load balancer configurations based on changes in Consul service discovery.
15 minUse HAProxy's native integration to automatically configure the load balancer with service discovery data from Consul.
Learn how Consul service discovery integrates with cloud providers and technologies.
14 minUse Consul DNS with Pivotal Application Service to discover external services.
12 minUse Consul-AWS to sync the services in an AWS Cloud Map namespace to a Consul datacenter or vice versa.
25 minUse HashiCorp's Consul Monitoring Extension for AppDynamics CNS to collect Consul telemetry data and node information.
5 minDeploy your first production-ready datacenter with Consul.
8 minLearn recommended practices and a reference architecture for HashiCorp Consul production deployments.
8 minDeploy your first three-server Consul datacenter in accordance with the Reference Architecture.
10 minUse the snapshot tool for backing up and restoring Consul data.
10 minLearn how to run Consul as a service on Windows servers.
5 minNow that you have deployed your first Consul datacenter, secure it.
10 minSecure gossip communication between Consul agents for a single datacenter.
12 minSecure RPC and consensus communication by creating and deploying certificates to Consul agents.
16 minSecure your production Consul datacenter with ACLs.
13 minDiscover the minimum privileges required to complete operations within your Consul datacenter and how to manage access using the operator-only implementation method.
12 minUse Consul's prepared query capability, to automate geo failover policies for services in the case that one of multiple connected datacenters is unavailable.
17 minRegister and health check services with Consul, even when they are running on nodes without a co-located Consul agent.
20 minRegister external services with Consul using the Terraform Consul provider.
15 minUse Consul's health checks capability to monitor datacenter health, and learn how it is used by the service discovery components to route traffic away from unhealthy hosts.
12 minGain hands-on experience with Consul service mesh using internal proxies or Envoy as sidecar proxies.
12 minUnderstand best practices for running Consul Connect service mesh in production.
15 minSplit layer-7 traffic, using Envoy proxies configured by Consul, to roll out a new version of a service. You can use this method for zero-downtime, blue-green, and canary deployments.
30 minConnect two services across datacenters using Consul Connect service mesh, intention replication, WAN gossip federation, and mesh gateways.
12 minUnderstand how terminating gateways, Consul's egress proxies, can provide connectivity to external destinations by terminating Consul Connect mTLS connections, enforcing Consul intentions, and forwarding requests to appropriate destination services.
12 minProgrammatically render configuration files from a variety of locations including Consul KV with Consul Template
10 minBuild client-side leader elections for service instances, using Consul.
12 minImplement a distributed semaphore using the Consul KV store.
12 minDiscover Consul health and server health metrics to make sure your datacenter is healthy and establish a baseline for monitoring.
12 minUse Telegraf to visualize Consul metrics.
12 minThere are several methods for adding or removing servers from the Consul datacenter. Learn the best practices for each method.
8 minUse Autopilot features to monitor the Raft cluster, introduce stable servers, and clean up dead servers.
15 minUnderstand how to recover from a Consul outage due to a majority of server nodes in a datacenter being lost.
15 minConfigure tokens, policies, and roles to work across multiple datacenters.
15 minUnderstand strategies for migrating from the legacy ACL system after upgrading to Consul 1.4+.
35 minSecure RPC, consensus, and HTTP communication by creating and deploying certificates to Consul agents using OpenSSL as the CA.
15 minSecure RPC and consensus communication by creating and deploying certificates to Consul agents on an existing datacenter.
12 minUse Consul to configure F5 BIG-IP nodes and server pools based on changes in Consul service discovery.
12 minConfigure NGINX Plus' load balancer automatically with service discovery data, via a native integration with Consul.
12 minUse Consul template to update NGINX load balancer configurations based on changes in Consul service discovery.
15 minUse HAProxy's native integration to automatically configure the load balancer with service discovery data from Consul.
14 minUse Consul DNS with Pivotal Application Service to discover external services.
12 minUse Consul-AWS to sync the services in an AWS Cloud Map namespace to a Consul datacenter or vice versa.
25 minUse HashiCorp's Consul Monitoring Extension for AppDynamics CNS to collect Consul telemetry data and node information.
Looking for specific Consul information? The Consul documentation provides reference material and in-depth details on: