Observability comes from the world of engineering and control theory. Control theory states that observability is itself a measure that describes “how well internal states of a system can be inferred from knowledge of external outputs”. In contrast to monitoring which is something you do, observability, is a property of a system. A system is […]
In the following tutorial we’ll walk you through provisioning a highly-available Hashicorp Vault and Consul cluster on Kubernetes with TLS. This is an intermediate-level tutorial. It assumes that you have basic working knowledge of Vault, Consul, Docker, and Kubernetes. Minikube is a tool used to run a single-node Kubernetes cluster locally. It’s designed to get […]
We’ve recently become aware of a set of malware targeting Consul nodes with a specific configuration which allows remote code execution. Members of our community also (responsibly) reported incidents caused by this malware, and worked with us to include a patch in a recent version of Consul that protects from this threat in the wild. […]
We are excited to announce the release of HashiCorp Consul 1.2. This release supports a major new feature called Connect that automatically turns any existing Consul cluster into a service mesh solution. Connect enables secure service-to-service communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization. Consul is currently deployed on millions of machines worldwide. After upgrading […]