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Interview

The Lineage of Consul, Mesh Gateways, and L7 Routing

Published 7:00 AM UTC Oct 17, 2019

Hear Nic Jackson briefly explain how Consul went from service discovery mainstay to a full-fledged service mesh with L7 routing & observability and multi-cluster gateways.

Speakers

Watch HashiCorp Developer Advocate Nic Jackson and Microsoft Azure Principal Program Manager Lachlan Evenson discuss Consul's heritage as a service discovery engine and how it now functions as a full service mesh with Layer 7 routing+observability and multi-cluster gateways (aka. Mesh Gateways). And don't forget to check out Nic's talk from HashiConf: Consul Service Mesh Deep Dive.

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