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page_title: 'Connect (Service Segmentation)'
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sidebar_current: 'docs-connect-index'
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description: |-
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Consul Connect provides service-to-service connection authorization and
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encryption using mutual TLS.
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# Connect
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Consul Connect provides service-to-service connection authorization and
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encryption using mutual Transport Layer Security (TLS). Applications can use
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[sidecar proxies](/docs/connect/proxies.html) in a service mesh configuration to
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establish TLS connections for inbound and outbound connections without being aware
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of Connect at all. Applications may also [natively integrate with Connect](/docs/connect/native.html)
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for optimal performance and security. Connect can help you secure your services and provide data
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about service-to-service
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communications.
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Review the video below to learn more about Consul Connect from HashiCorp's co-founder Armon.
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<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8T8t4-hQY74" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="315" ></iframe>
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## Application Security
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Connect enables secure deployment best-practices with automatic
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service-to-service encryption, and identity-based authorization.
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Connect uses the registered service identity (rather than IP addresses) to
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enforce access control with [intentions](/docs/connect/intentions.html). This
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makes it easier to reason about access control and enables services to be
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rescheduled by orchestrators including Kubernetes and Nomad. Intention
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enforcement is network agnostic, so Connect works with physical networks, cloud
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networks, software-defined networks, cross-cloud, and more.
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## Observability
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One of the key benefits of Consul Connect is the uniform and consistent view it can
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provide of all the services on your network, irrespective of their different
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programming languages and frameworks. When you configure Consul Connect to use
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sidecar proxies, those proxies "see" all service-to-service traffic and can
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collect data about it. Consul Connect can configure Envoy proxies to collect
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layer 7 metrics and export them to tools like Prometheus. Correctly instrumented
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applications can also send open tracing data through Envoy.
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## Getting Started With Connect
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There are several ways to try Connect in different environments.
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- The [Getting Started with Consul Service Mesh track](https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/gs-consul-service-mesh/understand-consul-service-mesh?utm_source=WEBSITE&utm_medium=WEB_IO&utm_offer=ARTICLE_PAGE&utm_content=DOCS)
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walks you through installing Consul as service mesh for Kubernetes using the Helm
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chart, deploying services in the service mesh, and using intentions to secure service
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communications.
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- The [Secure Service-to-Service Communication guide](https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/developer-mesh/connect-services?utm_source=WEBSITE&utm_medium=WEB_IO&utm_offer=ARTICLE_PAGE&utm_content=DOCS)
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is a simple walk through of connecting two services on your local machine
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using Consul Connect's built-in proxy and configuring your first intention. The guide also includes an introduction to
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using Envoy as the Connect sidecar proxy.
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- The [Kubernetes guide](https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/getting-started-k8s/minikube?utm_source=WEBSITE&utm_medium=WEB_IO&utm_offer=ARTICLE_PAGE&utm_content=DOCS)
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walks you through configuring Consul Connect in Kubernetes using the Helm
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chart, and using intentions. You can run the guide on Minikube or an existing
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Kubernetes cluster.
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- The [observability guide](https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/kubernetes/l7-observability-k8s?utm_source=WEBSITE&utm_medium=WEB_IO&utm_offer=ARTICLE_PAGE&utm_content=DOCS)
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shows how to deploy a basic metrics collection and visualization pipeline on
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a Minikube or Kubernetes cluster using the official Helm charts for Consul,
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Prometheus, and Grafana.
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