Azure Friday: Connecting Kubernetes Clusters on Azure with Consul

Consul 1.4 has some powerful new features that allow it to act as both a service mesh and service registry that connects containerized Kubernetes clusters and other types of workloads such as VMs and bare metal.

To help ease the Kubernetes integration process, Consul now has a Helm chart which the director of HashiCorp training programs, Geoffrey Grossenbach, demos for us in this Azure Friday episode.

In this short demo, Geoffrey will:

• Install a Consul server on a Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster using the Helm chart
• Deploy and secure a pair of microservices with Consul

For additional background, check out these resources:

• The HashiCorp Learn Consul Track
• The Consul project page
• The Open Source Show's Introduction to Service Mesh
• The AKS home page
• Use case: Modern service discovery with Consul on Azure (Part 1)
• Use case: Modern Service Mesh with Consul on Azure (Part 2)