VM production patterns

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

4 tutorials

18min
Consul reference architecture
Learn recommended practices and reference architecture for HashiCorp Consul single cluster production deployments on virtual machines (VMs).
- Consul
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.
- Consul
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.
- Consul
5min
Production readiness checklist
Prepare for production on virtual machine environment following the production readiness checklist.
- Consul