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Getting Started with HashiCorp Consul
This course will teach you how to transparently connect services with Consul, to react to changes in real-time and to provide high availability and reliability!
What you'll learn
Modern software systems often depend upon functionality provided by an amalgamation of services. Service oriented architectures require a robust foundation for communication. In this course, Getting Started with HashiCorp Consul, you’ll learn to connect services dynamically with Consul. First, you’ll explore service discovery and routing traffic with health checks. Next, you’ll discover configuring apps dynamically via the KV Store. Finally, you’ll learn how to transparently monitor and secure service-to-service communication. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Consul needed to deploy a full fledged service mesh.
Table of contents
- Challenge: Hardcoded Service Discovery | 2m 16s
- Consul's Territory | 1m 57s
- Challenge: Service Oriented Architectures | 2m 31s
- Challenge: Feature Toggles and External Services | 1m 11s
- Challenge: Heterogenous Environments | 1m 6s
- Challenge: Scaling Up and Down | 1m 43s
- Consul's Standalone Binary | 1m 46s
- Running a Consul Agent in Dev Mode | 1m 47s
- Client Services and the Consul (Web) UI | 2m 28s
- Consul's RESTful HTTP API | 2m 21s
- Consul Also Exposes a DNS Interface | 2m 9s
- Consul's CLI Uses Its HTTP API | 1m 59s
- Consul's Official Docker Image | 3m 48s
- Creating an Ubuntu VM with Vagrant | 2m 5s
- Installing Consul in the Ubuntu VM | 2m 14s
- Remote Access to the Consul HTTP API Running in the VM | 3m 13s
- Bind Client Interfaces to 0.0.0.0 | 1m 59s
- Consul CLI Tab Completion | 1m 59s
- Consul Is Open Source and Accessible! | 2m 18s
About the author
Wes Higbee is passionate about helping companies achieve remarkable results with technology and software. He’s had extensive experience developing software and working with teams to improve how software is developed to meet business objectives. Wes launched Full City Tech to leverage his expertise to help companies delight customers.
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