Course Outline

Introduction

  • Why Consul?
  • Consul vs ZooKeeper, Chef, Puppet, SkyDNS, SmartStack, Serf, Custom Solutions

Installation and Setup

Consul Architectural Overview

  • Server and agents
  • Consensus protocol, Gossip protocol, Network coordinates, Sessions, Anti-entropy, Security model, Jepsen testing

Using the Consul CLI

Using the Consul Web UI

Running the Agents

Creating a Cluster

Service Discovery

  • Setting up Consul clients to discover services and databases

Health Checking

  • Setting up Consul clients to provide health checks (webserver availability, memory utilization, etc.)

KV Store

  • Setting up Consul's hierarchical key/value store

Federation

  • Configuring Consul to support multiple datacenters

Consul's Access Control List (ACL)

  • Controlling access to Consul resources

Autopilot

  • Setting up automatic management of Consul servers

Adding and Removing Consul Servers

Bootstrapping a New Datacenter

DNS Forwarding

Outage Recovery

Performance Tuning

Upgrading Consul

Summary and Conclusion

Requirements

  • System administration experience
  • General understanding of clusters and distributed computing
  • Familiarity with datacenter architecture

Audience

  • Developers
  • Operators
  7 Hours
 

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