Tutorial
Network infrastructure automation with Consul-Terraform-Sync
In this tutorial you will learn how to install Consul-Terraform-Sync and configure it to communicate and react to your Consul datacenter.
Use case
Network infrastructure automation with Consul
Consul-Terraform-Sync allows for the automation of various networking tasks and workflows based on changes observed by Consul.
Challenge
Manual networking tasks
New technologies have emerged in recent years to help accelerate application deployment times. However, legacy systems and old practices cannot keep up with the rate of change of modern applications. If an event occurs that auto-scales additional service instances, networking and security teams are oftentimes still dealing with manual ticket-driven processes that can slow down solution delivery and introduce a higher likelihood of misconfiguration.
Solution
Network infrastructure automation with Consul
Adopting network infrastructure automation (NIA) with Consul-Terraform-Sync ensures networking and security infrastructure safely adapts to changes. Consul-Terraform-Sync automates various networking tasks and workflows based on changes observed by Consul. The tasks can be triggered by different events, like the scaling of service instances, change of service address or port number, and updates to service tags, meta, or health. This leads to improved delivery times and greatly reduces the chances of misconfigurations.
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Consul-Terraform-Sync run modes and status inspection
Learn the different run modes available with Consul-Terraform-Sync, how to monitor the task status, and how to locate the Terraform state files.
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Consul-Terraform-Sync and integration
In this tutorial you will learn how to configure Consul-Terraform-Sync to interact with Terraform Enterprise and HCP Terraform.
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Documentation
Network infrastructure automation
Network infrastructure automation (NIA) enables dynamic updates to network infrastructure devices triggered by service changes.
Documentation
Consul-Terraform-Sync Architecture
Consul-Terraform-Sync runs as a daemon and integrates the network topology to dynamically secure and connect services.
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Install Consul-Terraform-Sync
Learn how to download and install Consul-Terraform-Sync.
Network infrastructure automation (NIA)
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