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* updated nav; renamed L7 traffic folder

* Added locality-aware routing to traffic mgmt overview

* Added route to local upstreams topic

* Updated agent configuration reference

* Added locality param to services conf ref

* Added locality param to conf entries

* mentioned traffic management in proxies overview

* added locality-aware to failover overview

* added docs for service rate limiting

* updated service defaults conf entry

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Chris S. Kim <ckim@hashicorp.com>

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Jeff Boruszak <104028618+boruszak@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Chris S. Kim <ckim@hashicorp.com>

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Co-authored-by: Jeff Boruszak <104028618+boruszak@users.noreply.github.com>
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---
layout: docs
page_title: Internals Overview
description: >-
To enhance your understanding of how to use, troubleshoot, and secure Consul, learn more about Consul's internal properties and how it works under the hood.
---
# Consul Internals Overview
This section covers some of the internals of Consul. Understanding the internals of Consul is necessary to successfully
use it in production.
Please review the following documentation to understand how Consul works.
- [Architecture](/consul/docs/architecture)
- [Consensus Protocol](/consul/docs/architecture/consensus)
- [Gossip Protocol](/consul/docs/architecture/gossip)
- [Network Coordinates](/consul/docs/architecture/coordinates)
- [Sessions](/consul/docs/security/acl/auth-methods/oidc)
- [Anti-Entropy](/consul/docs/architecture/anti-entropy)
- [Security Model](/consul/docs/security)
- [Discovery Chain](/consul/docs/connect/manage-traffic/discovery-chain)
You should also be familiar with [Jepsen testing](/consul/docs/architecture/jepsen), before deploying
a production datacenter.