Consul Service Mesh

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.

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15 tutorials

15min
Control access into the service mesh with Consul API gateway
Route inbound requests to applications running on the HashiCorp Consul service mesh by leveraging a single control plane.
- Consul
17min
Secure service communication with Consul service mesh and Envoy
Gain hands-on experience with Consul service mesh and Envoy as a sidecar proxy.
- Consul
- Interactive
5min
Visualize Service Mesh Communication in the Consul UI
Visualize the communication flow between services registered in your mesh with the topology diagram in the Consul UI.
- Consul
12min
Consul service mesh in production
Understand best practices for running Consul service mesh in production.
- Consul
11min
Implement circuit breaking in Consul service mesh with Envoy
Configure passive health checking in Consul service mesh to detect outliers and exclude unhealthy service instances from receiving traffic.
- Consul
15min
Load balancing services in Consul service mesh with Envoy
Manage traffic across services within Consul service mesh with Envoy load balancing policies.
- Consul
- Interactive
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
15min
Understand terminating gateways
Understand how terminating gateways, Consul's egress proxies, can provide connectivity to external destinations by terminating mTLS connections, enforcing Consul intentions, and forwarding requests to appropriate destination services.
- Consul
13min
Connect external services to Consul With terminating gateways
Enable communication with an external service using terminating gateways and Envoy as a sidecar proxy.
- Consul
14min
Allow external traffic inside your service mesh with ingress gateways
Enable inbound communications to an internal service mesh service using ingress gateways and Envoy as a sidecar proxy.
- Consul
15min
Integrate Consul with Ambassador Edge Stack on Kubernetes
Use Ambassador Edge Stack to route requests using Consul's service discovery.
- Consul
16min
Extend your service mesh to support AWS Lambda
Learn how to configure AWS Lambda functions to interact with Consul service mesh. Replace a Kubernetes service deployment with an AWS Lambda function.
- Consul
21min
Connect services between Consul datacenters with cluster peering
Route traffic of applications running on the HashiCorp Consul service mesh between clusters managed by different operators.
- Terraform
- Consul
11min
Connect services on Windows workloads to Consul service mesh
Deploy HCP Consul and Windows virtual machines, pre-configured with Consul, Envoy, and a demo service. Explore the Consul client configuration to add Windows workloads to your service mesh.
- Terraform
- Consul
14min
Deploy seamless canary deployments with service splitters
Use Consul service splitters and service resolvers to gradually and safely promote your services. Split layer-7 (L7) traffic, using Envoy proxies configured by Consul, to roll out a new version of a service. You can also use this for zero-downtime, blue-green, and canary deployments.
- Consul