In this section, you will learn about the Consul service mesh through hands-on exercises. Consul is unique due to its ability to run in Kubernetes, VMs, and bare-metal environments. 

This section contains the following chapters:

• Chapter 19, Understanding the Consul Service Mesh
• Chapter 20, Installing Consul
• Chapter 21, Exploring Consul's Service Discovery Features
• Chapter 22, Exploring Consul's Traffic Management Capabilities