The Consul Education team has created a couple new guides to help you secure and monitor Consul service registrations.
Consul Connect secures service-to-service communication. Connect allows you to secure communication between services with proxies. In this new guide, you'll deploy two demo applications into a zero-trust network. The guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to register services and their proxies.
Secure Service-to-Service Communication
One of the primary roles of the Consul agent is to manage system-level and application-level health checks. In this guide, you'll deploy two services with different health checks and a health check for the agent. Finally, you'll test that Consul DNS only returns healthy services.
Try this example method for transitioning from Consul service discovery to service mesh without affecting uptimes or development teams.
Consul 1.18 improves enterprise reliability with Long-Term Support, fault-injection capabilities, and expanded Amazon ECS support for multi-runtime deployments.
HashiCorp Consul Enterprise adds Long-Term Support (LTS) releases, reducing operational overhead and risk with extended maintenance and upgrade compatibility.