Next steps
The Consul Enterprise deployment is now ready for operational handoff and consumer onboarding.
Operational handoff
Use the Consul Administration Guide to operate the platform, including identity and access management, observability, backups, restores, upgrades, support readiness, and multi-tenant governance.
Consumer onboarding
Use the Consul User Guide for service discovery, catalog usage, service mesh, deployment automation, and client-agent workflows.
Legacy summary folded into next steps
After installing HashiCorp Consul Enterprise, operational diligence is fundamental to ensuring a solid and reliable platform for your application developers to consume. This document has outlined numerous operational considerations, primarily focusing on embarking on your Consul Enterprise adoption journey with a spotlight on Service Discovery use cases. As you advance through your adoption journey, other HVD document iterations will cover additional considerations. Stay tuned for more HVD guidance covering these advanced topics in the future. Adhering to the guidelines laid out in this document will provide a robust foundation for managing and scaling your Consul deployment efficiently, thereby ensuring a resilient infrastructure aligned with your organization's operational standards.
Automating the deployment and management of Consul through CI/CD pipelines or GitOps workflows offers numerous advantages, and HashiCorp strongly advocates for this approach.
Key benefits include:
- Increased Velocity: Enables rapid updates and deployment of new services.
- Standardization: Allows operations and security teams to enforce consistent standards across environments.
- Enhanced Security: Improves the security posture by streamlining the patching and updating of systems, addressing vulnerabilities (CVEs) more effectively.
- Cost Reduction: Reduces the time and effort needed to update and maintain systems, resulting in significant cost savings.
By adopting automation, organizations can build a scalable, secure, and efficient Consul platform.