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Certification
Consul Associate
HashiCorp
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Cost
$71
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You should take the Consul Associate certification exam if you are a Cloud Engineer with foundational Consul knowledge and skills, who can identify Consul Enterprise features and distinguish them from Community Edition. You may be a site reliability engineer, solutions architect, or other DevOps professional.
Understand how Consul discovers, tracks, and monitors the health of servicesExplain how Consul secures service to service communicationSummarize how Consul controls access to services at point of entryDiscuss how Consul automates networking tasksIdentify Consul datacenter components including agents and communication protocolsReview Consul server high availability & scalability optionsDifferentiate between server agents and data plane components (client agents and Consul Dataplane)Understand that Consul can run on multiple platformsConfigure, bootstrap, and start Consul server agentsConfigure and start Consul client agentsConfigure and start Consul on KubernetesExplain Consul agent join methods and behaviorInterpret a service registrationDifferentiate between service registration methodsUnderstand service health check configuration options and behaviorsQuery Consul's service catalog via CLI, API, UI, and/or DNS, and interpret the resultsInterpret & use prepared queriesConsider high level architecture & key benefits of Consul service meshUnderstand Consul service mesh intentions & when to use themApply proxy configuration options within Consul service meshUnderstand Consul security/threat modelDifferentiate certificate types needed for TLS encryptionInterpret TLS encryption settings & intended useConfigure gossip encryptionUnderstand Consul ACL system components and usageCreate and configure ACL policies and tokensUse ACL tokens to communicate securely with Consul services and agentsUse Consul gateways to securely connect and access services into, out of, and within the service meshUnderstand how to enable communication between multiple Consul datacentersDescribe Consul service mesh observability