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# Consul Internals

This section goes over some of the internals of Consul, such as the architecture,
consensus and gossip protocol, security model, etc.

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Note that knowing about the internals of Consul is not necessary to
successfully use it, but we document it here to be completely transparent
about how Consul works.
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