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In the metric documentation, some metrics are written with an extra trailing dot character. Often this is just spurious. In some cases, it is an allusion to the metric name having various variable dot-separated parts (which really ought to be labels, but that's another issue). 1) Trim all the dots which are without meaning. 2) Explicitly show with placeholders in angle brackets, where there are variable parts. 3) Remove a `json` type indicator from a code block which was not JSON (rather Prometheus metrics) format, since my IDE was reporting the non-JSON syntax as an error. 4) Reformat each Markdown table which I had touched with other changes to have consistent column spacing in the source representation. As a result, this PR has a lot of whitespace changes, so please make use of GitHub's "ignore whitespace" checkbox in the PR diff viewer. Let me know if you would prefer: - to not accept the table spacing reformat in the same PR as other changes - to not accept the table spacing reformat ever - to have all tables in the file reformatted, not just ones touched with other changes
Consul
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
- Website: https://www.consul.io
- Tutorials: HashiCorp Learn
- Forum: Discuss
Consul provides several key features:
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Multi-Datacenter - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can support any number of regions without complex configuration.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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, macOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows and includes an optional browser based UI. A commercial version called Consul Enterprise is also available.
Please note: We take Consul's security and our users' trust very seriously. If you believe you have found a security issue in Consul, please responsibly disclose by contacting us at security@hashicorp.com.
Quick Start
A few quick start guides are available on the Consul website:
- Standalone binary install: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/get-started-install
- Minikube install: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/kubernetes-minikube
- Kind install: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/kubernetes-kind
- Kubernetes install: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/kubernetes-deployment-guide
Documentation
Full, comprehensive documentation is available on the Consul website:
Contributing
Thank you for your interest in contributing! Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md for guidance. For contributions specifically to the browser based UI, please refer to the UI's README.md for guidance.