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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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33 tutorials

15min
Migrate Legacy ACL Tokens
Understand strategies for migrating from the legacy ACL system after upgrading to Consul 1.4+.
- Consul
20min
Admin Partitions with HCP Consul and Amazon Elastic Container Service
Learn how to use admin partitions with Consul Enterprise on Amazon Elastic Container service.
- Consul
9min
Application leader election with sessions
Build client-side leader elections for service instances, using Consul.
- 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
18min
Automate Consul agent security with auto config
Securely join Consul agents to a Consul datacenter with JSON Web Tokens (JWT).
- Consul
- Vault
13min
Service mesh observability with Docker Compose
Deploy a Consul service mesh observability stack with Docker Compose to gain complete insight into metrics, logs, and traces.
- Consul
15min
Consul with containers
Use the official HashiCorp Docker image for running Consul.
- Consul
10min
Federate multiple datacenters with WAN gossip
Federate Consul datacenters using a single WAN gossip pool.
- 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
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
Rotate gossip encryption keys in Consul
Rotate gossip encryption keys in your Consul datacenter to keep datacenter secure.
- 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
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
21min
Layer 7 observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Kubernetes
Collect and visualize layer 7 metrics from services in your Kubernetes cluster using Consul service mesh, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- 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
18min
Deploy Consul on RedHat OpenShift
Deploy Consul on OpenShift with the official Helm chart and deploy services into Consul's service mesh.
- 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
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
13min
Monitor Consul datacenter health with Telegraf
Use Telegraf to visualize Consul metrics.
- Consul
12min
Monitor Consul with AppDynamics CNS
Use HashiCorp's Consul Monitoring Extension for AppDynamics CNS to collect Consul telemetry data and node information.
- 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
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
11min
Consul-AWS
Use Consul-AWS to sync services in an AWS CloudMap namespace to a Consul datacenter or vice versa.
- Consul
11min
Discover Services External to Pivotal Application Service
Use Consul DNS with Pivotal Application Service to discover external services.
- Consul
14min
Use Terraform to register external services
Register external services with Consul using the Terraform Consul provider.
- Consul
- Terraform
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
14min
Secure Consul agent communication with TLS encryption
Secure RPC and consensus communication by creating and deploying certificates to Consul agents.
- Consul
- Interactive
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
16min
Troubleshoot common Consul issues
Find and fix problems with your Consul datacenter using built-in and external tools.
- 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