Consul is an important service discovery tool in the world of Devops. This tutorial covers in-depth working knowledge of Consul, its setup and deployment. This tutorial aims to help new user’s setup consul, develop advanced knowledge on consul and learn some interesting projects built around consul. In the end, I hope the readers understand this tutorial and use consul for their daily work. This tutorial will give you a quick start with Consul and make you comfortable with its various components.

Audience

This tutorial is prepared for the students, beginners as well as for intermediate Devops Practitioners to help them understand the basics to advanced concepts related to the Consul tool.

Prerequisites

Before you start doing practice with the examples given in this tutorial, it is being assumed that you already have a basic knowledge of Linux, Git, Golang, Docker and AWS (Amazon Web Services).