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* Docs for Unix Domain Sockets

There are a number of cases where a user might wish to either 1)
expose a service through a Unix Domain Socket in the filesystem
('downstream') or 2) connect to an upstream service by a local unix
domain socket (upstream).
As of Consul (1.10-beta2) we've added new syntax and support to configure
the Envoy proxy to support this
To connect to a service via local Unix Domain Socket instead of a
port, add local_bind_socket_path and optionally local_bind_socket_mode
to the upstream config for a service:
    upstreams = [
      {
         destination_name = "service-1"
         local_bind_socket_path = "/tmp/socket_service_1"
         local_bind_socket_mode = "0700"
	 ...
      }
      ...
    ]
This will cause Envoy to create a socket with the path and mode
provided, and connect that to service-1
The mode field is optional, and if omitted will use the default mode
for Envoy. This is not applicable for abstract sockets. See
https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/api-v3/config/core/v3/address.proto#envoy-v3-api-msg-config-core-v3-pipe
for details
NOTE: These options conflict the local_bind_socket_port and
local_bind_socket_address options. We can bind to an port or we can
bind to a socket, but not both.
To expose a service listening on a Unix Domain socket to the service
mesh use either the 'socket_path' field in the service definition or the
'local_service_socket_path' field in the proxy definition. These
fields are analogous to the 'port' and 'service_port' fields in their
respective locations.
    services {
      name = "service-2"
      socket_path = "/tmp/socket_service_2"
      ...
    }
OR
    proxy {
      local_service_socket_path = "/tmp/socket_service_2"
      ...
    }
There is no mode field since the service is expected to create the
socket it is listening on, not the Envoy proxy.
Again, the socket_path and local_service_socket_path fields conflict
with address/port and local_service_address/local_service_port
configuration entries.
Set up a simple service mesh with dummy services:
socat -d UNIX-LISTEN:/tmp/downstream.sock,fork UNIX-CONNECT:/tmp/upstream.sock
socat -v tcp-l:4444,fork exec:/bin/cat
services {
  name = "sock_forwarder"
  id = "sock_forwarder.1"
  socket_path = "/tmp/downstream.sock"
  connect {
    sidecar_service {
      proxy {
	upstreams = [
	  {
	    destination_name = "echo-service"
	    local_bind_socket_path = "/tmp/upstream.sock"
	    config {
	      passive_health_check {
		interval = "10s"
		max_failures = 42
	      }
	    }
	  }
	]
      }
    }
  }
}
services {
  name = "echo-service"
  port = 4444
  connect = { sidecar_service {} }
Kind = "ingress-gateway"
Name = "ingress-service"
Listeners = [
 {
   Port = 8080
   Protocol = "tcp"
   Services = [
     {
       Name = "sock_forwarder"
     }
   ]
 }
]
consul agent -dev -enable-script-checks -config-dir=./consul.d
consul connect envoy -sidecar-for sock_forwarder.1
consul connect envoy -sidecar-for echo-service -admin-bind localhost:19001
consul config write ingress-gateway.hcl
consul connect envoy -gateway=ingress -register -service ingress-service -address '{{ GetInterfaceIP "eth0" }}:8888' -admin-bind localhost:19002
netcat 127.0.0.1 4444
netcat 127.0.0.1 8080

Signed-off-by: Mark Anderson <manderson@hashicorp.com>

* fixup Unix capitalization

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* Update website/content/docs/connect/registration/service-registration.mdx

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* Provide examples in hcl and json

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* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Blake Covarrubias <blake@covarrubi.as>

* One more fixup for docs

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Co-authored-by: Blake Covarrubias <blake@covarrubi.as>
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Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.

Consul provides several key features:

  • Multi-Datacenter - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can support any number of regions without complex configuration.

  • Service Mesh/Service Segmentation - Consul Connect enables secure service-to-service communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization. Applications can use sidecar proxies in a service mesh configuration to establish TLS connections for inbound and outbound connections without being aware of Connect at all.

  • Service Discovery - Consul makes it simple for services to register themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface. External services such as SaaS providers can be registered as well.

  • Health Checking - Health Checking enables Consul to quickly alert operators about any issues in a cluster. The integration with service discovery prevents routing traffic to unhealthy hosts and enables service level circuit breakers.

  • Key/Value Storage - A flexible key/value store enables storing dynamic configuration, feature flagging, coordination, leader election and more. The simple HTTP API makes it easy to use anywhere.

Consul runs on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows. A commercial version called Consul Enterprise is also available.

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