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That concludes the getting started guide for Consul. Hopefully you're able to see that while Consul is simple to use, it has a powerful set of features. We've covered the basics for all of these features in this guide.
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# Next Steps
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That concludes the getting started guide for Consul. Hopefully you're able to
see that while Consul is simple to use, it has a powerful set of features.
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We've covered the basics for all of these features in this guide.
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Consul is designed to be friendly to both the DevOps community and
application developers, making it perfect for modern, elastic infrastructures.
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As a next step, the following resources are available:
* [Documentation ](/docs/index.html ) - The documentation is an in-depth reference
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guide to all the features of Consul, including technical details about the
internals of how Consul operates.
* [Guides ](/docs/guides/index.html ) - This section provides various getting
started guides with Consul, including how to bootstrap a new datacenter.
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* [Examples ](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/tree/master/demo ) -
The work-in-progress examples folder within the GitHub
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repository for Consul contains functional examples of various use cases
of Consul to help you get started with exactly what you need.
