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Consul Guides

This section provides various guides for common actions. Due to the nature of Consul, some of these procedures can be complex, so our goal is to provide guidance do doing them safely.

The following guides are available:

• Bootstrapping - This guide covers bootstrapping a new datacenter. This covers safely adding the initial Consul servers.

• DNS Forwarding - Forward DNS queries from Bind to Consul

• External Services - This guide covers registering an external service. This allows using 3rd party services within the Consul framework.

• TODO: Adding and removing servers

• TODO: Joining datacenters