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!

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.

• Course Overview 1min
• Installing and Running Consul in Dev Mode 40mins
• Service Registration and Discovery 47mins
• Service Reliability with Health Checks and Scalability 38mins
• Dynamic Configuration with Consul’s KV Store 38mins
• Managing Cluster Membership 26mins
• A Full-fledged Service Mesh with Connect 41mins