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Consul Learning Roadmap

Service discovery, service mesh, and distributed configuration.

Estimated time:3–5 weeks

1🌱

Phase 1 — Fundamentals

Service registration & discovery

Health checks

Key/Value store

Agents (client vs server mode)

2🕸️

Consul Connect (sidecar proxies)

Intentions (service-to-service authorization)

mTLS certificate management

Ingress/terminating gateways

3🌐

WAN federation across datacenters

Consul on Kubernetes

DNS interface for service discovery

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important

Raft consensus & server sizing

ACL system for access control

Backup/restore & disaster recovery

Begin with interview questions to assess your current level.