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Traffic Management

Traffic routing with Consul service mesh, gateways, and Envoy proxies.

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9 tutorials
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    11min
    Manage Traffic with Consul Service Mesh
    Manage Consul service mesh traffic using at the data plane with Envoy proxies, at the service level using the L7 Service Discovery Chain, and across the WAN with Gateways.
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    17min
    Traffic Splitting for Service Deployments
    Split layer-7 traffic, using Envoy proxies configured by Consul, to roll out a new version of a service. You can use this method for zero-downtime, blue-green, and canary deployments.
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    11min
    Implement Circuit Breaking in Consul Service Mesh with Envoy
    Configure passive health checking in Consul service mesh to detect outliers and exclude unhealthy service instances from receiving traffic.
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    15min
    Load Balancing Services in Consul Service Mesh with Envoy
    Manage traffic across services within Consul service mesh with Envoy load balancing policies.
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    19min
    Connect Services Across Datacenters with Mesh Gateways
    Connect two services across datacenters using Consul service mesh, intention replication, WAN gossip federation, and mesh gateways.
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    15min
    Understand Terminating Gateways
    Understand how terminating gateways, Consul's egress proxies, can provide connectivity to external destinations by terminating mTLS connections, enforcing Consul intentions, and forwarding requests to appropriate destination services.
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    13min
    Connect External Services to Consul With Terminating Gateways
    Enable communication with an external service using terminating gateways and Envoy as a sidecar proxy.
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    14min
    Allow External Traffic Inside Your Service Mesh With Ingress Gateways
    Enable inbound communications to an internal service mesh service using ingress gateways and Envoy as a sidecar proxy.
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    16min
    Extend your Service Mesh to Support AWS Lambda
    Learn how to configure AWS Lambda functions to interact with Consul service mesh. Replace a Kubernetes service deployment with an AWS Lambda function.
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