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  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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# Consul Internals

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

-> **Note:** 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.