In a previous post, I talked about installing Consul on Kubernetes and using some of its features. In that post, I did not look at the service mesh functionality. Before looking at that, it is beneficial to try out the service mesh features on your local machine.
You can easily install Consul on your local machine with Chocolatey for Windows or Homebrew for Mac. On Windows, a simple choco install consul is enough. Since Consul is just a single executable, you can start it from the command line with all the options you need.
In the video below, I walk through configuring two services running as containers on my local machine: a web app that talks to Redis. We will “mesh” both services and then use an intention to deny service-to-service traffic.
In a later post and video, we will look at Consul Connect on Kubernetes. Stay tuned!
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