Multi-Cloud WAN Federation with Consul and Kubernetes

One of Consul’s key features is multi-datacenter support. As organizations continue to adopt a multi-cloud approach, the ability to have services seamlessly communicate with each other across clouds via a common service discovery vehicle is crucial. This talk will focus on using Consul and Consul Connect to facilitate secure and fault-tolerant communications between those applications that reside in different clouds.

Speaker: Jacob Mammoliti

HashiCorp provides infrastructure automation software for multi-cloud environments, enabling enterprises to unlock a common cloud operating model to provision, secure, connect, and run any application on any infrastructure. HashiCorp open source tools Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad, Boundary, and Waypoint allow organizations to deliver applications faster by helping enterprises transition from manual processes and ITIL practices to self-service automation and DevOps practices.

[harshananayakkara]

Hi, I have a a Kubernetes Cluster and a Nomad Cluster. I also have a single Consul Server installed in a VM outside of Nomad & K8S. I want to achieve workload load balancing / failover between K8s and Nomad. So in this case as I only have 1 Consul Server (since this for test purposes) can I still make use of Consul WAN Federation between the 2 clusters or else what path should I take to achieve my expectation. Thanks!

[sumitgupta]

I have two private cloud in different regions and I have setup hashicorp vault on both of them with consul as storage. On each DC, I have two vault servers (one active, one standby) and 3 consul servers for data. Now, how should I join both of them via WAN Federation to achieve failover during a disaster ? Kindly guide. (I am using community edition)