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VM production patterns

Explore recommended best practices for deploying Consul in a production environment on virtual machines (VMs).

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4 tutorials
  • 18min
    Consul reference architecture
    Learn recommended practices and reference architecture for HashiCorp Consul single cluster production deployments on virtual machines (VMs).
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  • 12min
    Consul security considerations
    Best practice recommendations to manage Consul secrets, TLS certificates, ACL tokens, and gossip encryption keys for Consul production deployments on virtual machines.
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  • 35min
    Deployment Guide
    Deploy your first Consul datacenter in production in accordance with the Reference Architecture using Linux or Windows virtual machines. Use recommended best practices to generate security credentials, create client and server configuration files, configure and start Consul service, bootstrap the ACL system.
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  • 5min
    Production readiness checklist
    Prepare for production on virtual machine environment following the production readiness checklist.
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