Day 2: Datacenter Operations

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

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13 tutorials

14min
Upgrade multiple federated Consul datacenters
Upgrade your federated Consul datacenters without downtime and ensuring federation and ACL replication is mantained.
- Consul
12min
Autopilot
Use Autopilot features to monitor the Raft cluster, introduce stable servers, and clean up dead servers.
- 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
12min
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.
- Consul
14min
Disaster recovery for Consul clusters
Understand how to recover from a Consul outage due to a majority of server nodes in a datacenter being lost.
- Consul
14min
Disaster recovery for federated primary datacenter
Recover from losing the primary datacenter in a federated environment.
- Consul
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
11min
Add and remove Consul servers
There are several methods for adding or removing servers from the Consul datacenter. Learn the best practices for each method.
- Consul
16min
Troubleshoot common Consul issues
Find and fix problems with your Consul datacenter using built-in and external tools.
- Consul
12min
Rotate gossip encryption keys in Consul
Rotate gossip encryption keys in your Consul datacenter to keep datacenter secure.
- Consul
14min
Authenticate users with single sign-on (SSO) and Auth0
Use Auth0 as an OIDC auth method in Consul Enterprise for single sign-on (SSO).
- Consul
8min
Capture Consul events with audit logging
Ensure regulatory and organizational compliance by capturing event data with Consul audit logging.
- Consul
12min
Use hcdiag with Consul
Use the hcdiag tool to gather important Consul server operational data for troubleshooting.
- Consul