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# Next Steps

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.

Consul is designed to be friendly to both the DevOps community and
application developers, making it perfect for modern, elastic infrastructures.

As a next step, the following resources are available:

* [Documentation](/docs/index.html) - The documentation is an in-depth reference
  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.

* [Examples](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/tree/master/demo) - The work-in-progress examples folder within the GitHub
  repository for Consul contains functional examples of various use cases
  of Consul to help you get started with exactly what you need.