Consul Service Mesh

Review the video below to learn more about Consul Connect from HashiCorp’s co-founder Armon.

Connect enables secure deployment best-practices with automatic service-to-service encryption, and identity-based authorization. Connect uses the registered service identity (rather than IP addresses) to enforce access control with intentions. This makes it easier to reason about access control and enables services to be rescheduled by orchestrators including Kubernetes and Nomad. Intention enforcement is network agnostic, so Connect works with physical networks, cloud networks, software-defined networks, cross-cloud, and more.

There are several ways to try Connect in different environments.

• The walks you through installing Consul as service mesh for Kubernetes using the Helm chart, deploying services in the service mesh, and using intentions to secure service communications.

• The Kubernetes tutorial walks you through configuring Consul Connect in Kubernetes using the Helm chart, and using intentions. You can run the guide on Minikube or an existing Kubernetes cluster.