Automate Service Networking Across Clouds

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What is Consul?

Consul is a service networking solution that enables teams to manage secure network connectivity between services and across multi-cloud environments and runtimes. Consul offers service discovery, identity-based authorization, L7 traffic management, and service-to-service encryption.

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Learn how to run service discovery and a service mesh with Consul.

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Service Mesh
Consul Service Mesh provides service-to-service connection authorization and encryption using mTLS.
Kubernetes
Deploy Consul to Kubernetes using the Helm chart, sync services between Consul and Kubernetes, and more.
HCP Consul Dedicated
Deploy a managed HCP Consul Dedicated cluster to quickly get started with Consul's full capabilities.

Popular Use Cases

7 tutorials

Connect services
Register services and health checks to Consul.
- Consul
2 tutorials

Traffic Management
Traffic routing with Consul service mesh, gateways, and Envoy proxies.
- Consul

15min
Control access into the service mesh with Consul API gateway
Route inbound requests to Consul service mesh applications using Consul API gateway. Use API gateway routes for path-based routing and load balancing.
- Consul
30min
Automate your network configuration with Consul-Terraform-Sync
Automate updates to firewall rules in network infrastructure with Consul-Terraform-Sync.
- Terraform
- Consul
16min
Extend your service mesh to support AWS Lambda
Migrate a Kubernetes service deployment into an AWS Lambda function. Import AWS Lambda functions inside your Consul service mesh using terminating gateways and Consul service splitters.
- Consul

Get Certified

3 tutorials

Prepare for the Consul Associate (003) certification exam
Prepare for your Consul Associate certification exam. Choose to follow an in-depth guide or to review select exam topics depending on the kind of preparation support you need. Then review sample questions to learn what to expect on exam day.
- Consul