In this chapter, we covered Consul in a Kubernetes environment. We covered service discovery, intentions, mTLS, key-value stores, and external services registration. It is important to note that Consul works in heterogeneous environments spanning multiple data centers. This makes it a very good candidate for service discovery and for providing mTLS out of the box while covering both Kubernetes as well as non-Kubernetes environments.  

You can use this service discovery knowledge process to build a catalog of enterprise services so that your cloud-native applications can discover and use them. 

In the next chapter, we will go through the traffic management capabilities of Consul Connect in the Kubernetes environment. You will learn how easy it is to shift and route traffic between different versions of the same service.