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Archive of Consul tutorials that are scheduled to be converted into documentation or revamped as new tutorials.

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26 tutorials
  • 9min
    Explore the Consul UI
    Consul comes with support for a user-friendly and functional web UI out of the box. In this tutorial, you will explore the web UI.
    • Consul
    • Video
  • 12min
    Federate multiple datacenters with network areas
    Use network areas for advanced datacenter federation. Network areas specify a relationship between a pair of Consul datacenters.
    • Consul
  • 12min
    Rotate gossip encryption keys in Consul
    Rotate gossip encryption keys in your Consul datacenter to keep datacenter secure.
    • Consul
  • 14min
    Automate upgrades with Consul Enterprise
    Upgrade your Consul datacenters without downtime using automated upgrades. This functionally is provided through the Enterprise feature of autopilot.
    • Consul
  • 14min
    Upgrade multiple federated Consul datacenters
    Upgrade your federated Consul datacenters without downtime and ensuring federation and ACL replication is mantained.
    • Consul
  • 13min
    Monitor Consul datacenter health with Telegraf
    Use Telegraf to visualize Consul metrics.
    • Consul
  • 19min
    Connect services across datacenters with mesh gateways
    Connect two services across datacenters using Consul service mesh, intention replication, WAN gossip federation, and mesh gateways.
    • Consul
  • 13min
    Deploy Consul on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
    Deploy Consul on GKE and learn how to manage your Consul datacenter with the Consul CLI, UI, and API.
    • Consul
  • 7min
    Consul service mesh on Kubernetes design patterns
    Consul service mesh implements several, potentially familiar, networking and cloud native design patterns. Learn how the Consul service mesh operates in a Kubernetes environment, and maps Consul components back to the design pattern language.
    • Consul
  • 19min
    Understand the Value of Migrating to Microservices
    Consul service mesh features enable organizations of any size to implement a controlled migration from monolith to microservices without disrupting current workflows or system availability.
    • Consul
  • 16min
    Model a Monolith as a Set of Microservices
    This tutorial will use an example monolithic application developed by a fictional company to illustrate the process of modeling a monolith as a set of microservices and planning a microservice pilot project.
    • Consul
  • 21min
    Scope a microservice extraction
    Explore an example monolithic application developed by a fictional company to illustrate the process of scoping a microservice extraction from a monolith and with a focus on preparing for deployment it to Consul service mesh on Kubernetes.
    • Consul
  • 10min
    Federate multiple datacenters with WAN gossip
    Federate Consul datacenters using a single WAN gossip pool.
    • Consul
  • 15min
    Migrate Legacy ACL Tokens
    Understand strategies for migrating from the legacy ACL system after upgrading to Consul 1.4+.
    • Consul
  • 18min
    Automate Consul agent security with auto config
    Securely join Consul agents to a Consul datacenter with JSON Web Tokens (JWT).
    • Consul
    • Vault
  • 21min
    Secure Consul agent communication with encryption and certificates
    Secure RPC, consensus, and HTTP communication by creating and deploying certificates to Consul agents using OpenSSL as the CA.
    • Consul
  • 13min
    Update Consul agents to securely communicate with TLS
    Secure RPC and consensus communication by creating and deploying certificates to Consul agents on an existing datacenter.
    • Consul
  • 14min
    Secure Consul agent communication with TLS encryption
    Secure RPC and consensus communication by creating and deploying certificates to Consul agents.
    • Consul
    • Interactive
  • 11min
    Consul-AWS
    Use Consul-AWS to sync services in an AWS CloudMap namespace to a Consul datacenter or vice versa.
    • Consul
  • 12min
    Autopilot
    Use Autopilot features to monitor the Raft cluster, introduce stable servers, and clean up dead servers.
    • Consul
  • 14min
    Forward DNS for Consul service discovery
    Enable service discovery by configuring DNS forwarding for Consul.
    • Consul
  • 16min
    Troubleshoot common Consul issues
    Find and fix problems with your Consul datacenter using built-in and external tools.
    • Consul
  • 18min
    Deploy Consul on RedHat OpenShift
    Deploy Consul on OpenShift with the official Helm chart and deploy services into Consul's service mesh.
    • Consul
  • 9min
    Application leader election with sessions
    Build client-side leader elections for service instances, using Consul.
    • Consul
  • 16min
    Load Balancing with HAProxy Service Discovery Integration
    Use HAProxy's native integration to automatically configure the load balancer with service discovery data from Consul.
    • Consul
  • 11min
    Discover Services External to Pivotal Application Service
    Use Consul DNS with Pivotal Application Service to discover external services.
    • Consul