Objective 6 Section Overview

Learn how to deploy, secure, and manage HashiCorp Consul’s Connect service mesh. This objective guides you through service mesh fundamentals, proxy registration, traffic policy definitions (intentions), and managing those policies via CLI, UI, and API.

Lesson Overview

Below is a summary of what you’ll cover in this lesson:

Topic	Description
Service mesh fundamentals	Overview of Consul Connect architecture, data plane, control plane, and proxies.
Proxy registration	Step-by-step guide to configuring and registering sidecar proxies.
Intentions	Creating and enforcing traffic policies to secure service-to-service traffic.
Managing intentions	Using the Consul CLI, UI, and REST API to list, update, and delete intentions.

Note

This is one of the most challenging objectives in the Consul Associate exam. We’ll break down each concept with detailed examples to simplify implementation and management.

Let’s begin with service mesh fundamentals.

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