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docs: give tutorials links for securing UI access
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- **Secure UI Access** - Access to Consul’s builtin UI can be secured in various ways:
- **mTLS** - Enabling the HTTPS with mutual TLS authentication is recommended, but requires extra tooling to terminate
the mTLS connection, preferably on an operator's local machine using a proxy script.
the mTLS connection, preferably on an operator's local machine using a proxy script. To do this, follow the tutorial on
[Configuring the Consul UI for HTTPS](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/tls-encryption-openssl-secure#configure-the-consul-ui-for-https)
and in Step 2 use "Option 1: add a client certificate to your browser".
- **TLS** - Enabling the HTTPS is recommended where mTLS may not be required for UI access, such as when ACLs are
configured with a default deny.
configured with a default deny. To do this, follow the tutorial on
[Configuring the Consul UI for HTTPS](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/tls-encryption-openssl-secure#configure-the-consul-ui-for-https)
and in Step 2 use "Option 2: verify_incoming_rpc".
- **ACL** - ACLs with a default deny policy enables safer UI access by preventing unauthorized access to sensitive
components within the cluster.
components within the cluster. To do this, follow the tutorial on
[Securing Consul with Access Control Lists (ACLs)](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/access-control-setup-production),
which includes a section on [creating ACL tokens that provide a desired level UI access](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/access-control-setup-production#consul-ui-token).
- **Restrict HTTP Writes** - Using the allow_write_http_from configuration option enables agent endpoints restricting
write capabilities to a list of CIDRs.
- **Restrict HTTP Writes** - Using the [`allow_write_http_from`](/docs/agent/options#allow_write_http_from)
configuration option to restrict write access for agent endpoints to hosts on the specified list of CIDRs.
**Example Agent Configuration**