From a0839f836047270a6dd5bb8a7287d2670069aea5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kaitlincarter-hc <43049322+kaitlincarter-hc@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 12:10:42 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add link to Learn to the top, move service mesh higher up on list of features. (#7474) --- README.md | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e01187b16..b30f2d97a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ # Consul [![CircleCI](https://circleci.com/gh/hashicorp/consul/tree/master.svg?style=svg)](https://circleci.com/gh/hashicorp/consul/tree/master) [![Discuss](https://img.shields.io/badge/discuss-consul-ca2171.svg?style=flat)](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/c/consul) * Website: https://www.consul.io +* Tutorials: [https://learn.hashicorp.com](https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul) * Forum: [Discuss](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/c/consul) Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is @@ -17,6 +18,11 @@ Consul provides several key features: discovery prevents routing traffic to unhealthy hosts and enables service level circuit breakers. +* **Service Segmentation/Service Mesh** - Consul Connect enables secure service-to-service + communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization. Applications + can use sidecar proxies in a service mesh configuration to establish TLS + connections for inbound and outbound connections without being aware of Connect at all. + * **Key/Value Storage** - A flexible key/value store enables storing dynamic configuration, feature flagging, coordination, leader election and more. The simple HTTP API makes it easy to use anywhere. @@ -24,11 +30,6 @@ Consul provides several key features: * **Multi-Datacenter** - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can support any number of regions without complex configuration. -* **Service Segmentation/Service Mesh** - Consul Connect enables secure service-to-service - communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization. Applications - can use sidecar proxies in a service mesh configuration to establish TLS - connections for inbound and outbound connections without being aware of Connect at all. - Consul runs on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows. A commercial version called [Consul Enterprise](https://www.hashicorp.com/products/consul) is also available. @@ -41,9 +42,9 @@ contacting us at security@hashicorp.com. A few quick start guides are available on the Consul website: -* **Standalone binary install:** https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/getting-started/install.html -* **Kubernetes install:** https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/kubernetes/kubernetes-deployment-guide +* **Standalone binary install:** https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/getting-started/install * **Minikube install:** https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/kubernetes/minikube +* **Kubernetes install:** https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/kubernetes/kubernetes-deployment-guide ## Documentation