Operating Consul at Scale

HUG community member and Criteo engineer Pierre Souchay gives a talk on Consul administration at Scale.

With around 35k physical nodes in 8 DCs with more than 3k different services having more than 250k instances, Criteo is a very large Consul deployment. See some of our tricks/tools to operate Consul, a few issues we had, and how we fix the clusters when there are issues.

This talk was part of the first HashiTalks online event - A 24-hour continuous series of presentations from the HashiCorp User Group (HUG) community and from HashiCorp engineers as well. The event took place from February 21-22, 2019.

HashiCorp is the leader in multi-cloud infrastructure automation software. The HashiCorp software suite enables organizations to adopt consistent workflows to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application. HashiCorp open source tools Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad, Boundary, and Waypoint are downloaded tens of millions of times each year and are broadly adopted by the Global 2000. Enterprise versions of these products enhance the open source tools with features that promote collaboration, operations, governance, and multi-data center functionality.

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