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# Consul Guides
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This section provides various guides for common actions. Due to the nature
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of Consul, some of these procedures can be complex, so our goal is to provide
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guidance to do them safely.
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The following guides are available:
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* [Adding/Removing Servers](/docs/guides/servers.html) - This guide covers how to safely add
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and remove Consul servers from the cluster. This should be done carefully to avoid availability
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outages.
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* [Bootstrapping](/docs/guides/bootstrapping.html) - This guide covers bootstrapping a new
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datacenter. This covers safely adding the initial Consul servers.
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* [DNS Forwarding](/docs/guides/forwarding.html) - Forward DNS queries from Bind to Consul
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* [External Services](/docs/guides/external.html) - This guide covers registering
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an external service. This allows using 3rd party services within the Consul framework.
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* [Multiple Datacenters](/docs/guides/datacenters.html) - Configuring Consul to support multiple
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datacenters.
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* [Outage Recovery](/docs/guides/outage.html) - This guide covers recovering a cluster
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that has become unavailable due to server failures.
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