This ebook is a quick introduction to using Consul for service discovery, cluster management, and key value storage. It gives a great hands-on introduction to using Consul. Consul is quickly taking ground from other cluster management tools out there like ZooKeeper and ETCD. In a matter of an hour, you will be quickly on your way to using Consul to manage your clusters and you will have a solid foundation to start using Consul to manage your microservices.Inside you will learn:- What Consul is- How to install Consul in a development or production environment- Accessing Conul's User Interface- Exposing Services to Consul- Consul Health Checks- Service Discovery- Using Consul's internal DNS to discover services- Using Consul's API to discover services- How to use Consul's Key Value storageYou get a complete walk-through for standing up a consul cluster on linux and exposing a MySQL service to Consul.