The Life of a Packet Through Consul Service Mesh

This white paper covers all aspects around Consul service mesh including: (1) getting started with service registration and deploying sidecar proxies, (2) how the Envoy sidecar proxy instances get bootstrapped and configured during runtime, (3) session establishment between service endpoints in a single Consul datacenter, and (4) how Mesh Gateways interconnect federated Consul datacenters on the service mesh level.