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Day 2: Datacenter Operations

Get the most out of your Consul datacenter with advanced operations such as advanced networking, ops automation, security, outage recovery, and troubleshooting.

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14 tutorials
  • 14min
    Upgrade Multiple Federated Consul Datacenters
    Upgrade your federated Consul datacenters without downtime and ensuring federation and ACL replication is mantained.
    • Consul
  • 12min
    Autopilot
    Use Autopilot features to monitor the Raft cluster, introduce stable servers, and clean up dead servers.
    • Consul
  • 14min
    Automate Upgrades with Consul Enterprise
    Upgrade your Consul datacenters without downtime using automated upgrades. This functionally is provided through the Enterprise feature of autopilot.
    • Consul
  • 12min
    Provide Fault Tolerance with Redundancy Zones
    Use Consul’s redundancy zones to provide high availability in the case of server failure through the Enterprise feature of autopilot.
    • Consul
  • 14min
    Outage Recovery
    Understand how to recover from a Consul outage due to a majority of server nodes in a datacenter being lost.
    • Consul
  • 14min
    Disaster Recovery for the Primary Datacenter
    Recover from losing the primary datacenter in a federated environment.
    • Consul
  • 12min
    Federate Multiple Datacenters with Network Areas
    Use network areas for advanced datacenter federation. Network areas specify a relationship between a pair of Consul datacenters.
    • Consul
  • 11min
    Add & Remove Consul Servers
    There are several methods for adding or removing servers from the Consul datacenter. Learn the best practices for each method.
    • Consul
  • 16min
    Troubleshoot Common Consul Issues
    Find and fix problems with your Consul datacenter using built-in and external tools.
    • Consul
  • 7min
    Common Consul Error Messages
    Find solutions to common error messages when working with Consul.
    • Consul
  • 12min
    Rotate Gossip Encryption Keys in Consul
    Rotate gossip encryption keys in your Consul datacenter to keep datacenter secure.
    • Consul
  • 14min
    Authenticate Users with Single Sign-On (SSO) and Auth0
    Use Auth0 as an OIDC auth method in Consul Enterprise for single sign-on (SSO).
    • Consul
  • 8min
    Capture Consul Events with Audit Logging
    Ensure regulatory and organizational compliance by capturing event data with Consul audit logging.
    • Consul
  • 12min
    Use hcdiag with Consul
    Use the hcdiag tool to gather important Consul server operational data for troubleshooting.
    • Consul