Overview
This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for support and maintenance by AskforCloud LLC.
Consul is a multi-networking tool that offers a fully featured service mesh solution that solves the networking and security challenges of operating microservices and cloud infrastructure (multi-cloud and hybrid cloud). Consul uses service identities and traditional networking practices to help organizations securely connect applications running in any environment.
Key features
: 1. Service Discovery: Clients of Consul can register a service, such as api or mysql, and other clients can use Consul to discover providers of a given service. 2. Health Checking: Consul clients can provide any number of health checks, either associated with a given service, or with the local node 3. KV Store: Applications can make use of Consul's hierarchical key/value store for any number of purposes, including dynamic configuration, feature flagging, coordination, leader election, and more. 4. Secure Service Communication: Consul can generate and distribute TLS certificates for services to establish mutual TLS connections. 5. Multi Datacenter: Consul supports multiple datacenters out of the box.Disclaimer: This Virtual machine offer contains free and open source software. All the software, trademarks used in the Virtual machine offer are the exclusive property of their respective owners. Askforcloud LLC does not offer commercial license of the product mentioned above. Hashicorp Consul is a registered trademark of HashiCorp Inc. Hashicorp Consul is licensed under the Mozilla Public License v2.0 .
Highlights
- Consul is a multi-networking tool that offers a fully-featured service mesh solution that solves the networking and security challenges of operating microservices and cloud infrastructure.
- Consul offers a software-driven approach to routing and segmentation.
- Consul also brings additional benefits such as failure handling, retries, and network observability.
Details
Typical total price
$0.106/hour
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Pricing
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Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t2.nano | $0.005 | $0.006 | $0.011 |
t2.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.005 | $0.012 | $0.017 |
t2.small | $0.01 | $0.023 | $0.033 |
t2.medium Recommended | $0.06 | $0.046 | $0.106 |
t2.large | $0.09 | $0.093 | $0.183 |
t2.xlarge | $0.10 | $0.186 | $0.286 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.20 | $0.371 | $0.571 |
t3.nano | $0.005 | $0.005 | $0.01 |
t3.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.005 | $0.01 | $0.015 |
t3.small | $0.01 | $0.021 | $0.031 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
For this offer, Askforcloud LLC does not offer refund, you can cancel at anytime.
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Usage instructions
Connect to EC2 Linux instance - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstances.html (Port - 22 and Username - admin)
Consul - https://www.consul.io/docs Use the following steps:
- To verify Consul is installed, run - Consul
- Follow - https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/get-started-agent
- Start the agent, run command - "consul agent -dev" Output : The logs report that the Consul agent has started and is streaming some log data
- Check the membership of the Consul datacenter by running the command in a new terminal window - "consul members" Output : The output displays your agent, its IP address, its health state, its role in the datacenter,
- Check consistent view of the world, query the HTTP API, which forwards the request to the Consul servers. Run command - "curl localhost:8500/v1/catalog/nodes"
- Stop the Consul agent by using the command : "consul leave" This will gracefully stop the agent, causing it to leave the Consul datacenter and shut down.
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