Consul Roadmap
summary
Consul replaces ticket-driven ops by using Consul Terraform Sync to watch the Consul catalog and run Terraform modules that automatically add healthy instances and remove unhealthy ones from load balancers, eliminating manual provisioning. A 5x jump in vehicle rentals forces shift from DNS service discovery to a full service mesh for mTLS, intent-based access, traffic management (canary/blue‑green) and topology metrics. Incremental patterns use ingress and terminating gateways for cross-mesh and external API traffic; multi‑DC federation and an API gateway preview enable global failover and partner integrations.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to Consul Roadmap
- 2:27Service discovery with Consul
- 4:34Scaling with load balancers
- 7:05Automating with Consul Terraform Sync
- 9:52Service mesh adoption
- 14:26Multi-data center deployment
- 16:52Partnerships and acquisitions
- 19:41Future of Consul at HashiCorp
- 21:27Summary and resources
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