diff --git a/website/source/guides/integrations/consul-connect/index.html.md b/website/source/guides/integrations/consul-connect/index.html.md index cbf8e07b3..20feeccc6 100644 --- a/website/source/guides/integrations/consul-connect/index.html.md +++ b/website/source/guides/integrations/consul-connect/index.html.md @@ -10,31 +10,34 @@ description: |- ~> **Note** This guide describes a new feature available in the [Nomad 0.10.0 Connect Technology Preview release][download] of Nomad for [Hashiconf EU - 2019][hashiconfeu]. This is not intended for production use and has many known - [limitations](#limitations). + 2019][hashiconfeu]. This is not intended for production use and has many + known [limitations](#limitations). [download]: https://releases.hashicorp.com/nomad/0.10.0-connect1/ [hashiconfeu]: https://hashiconfeu.hashicorp.com/schedule/service-mesh-with-consul-connect-and-nomad-0.10 -[Consul Connect](https://www.consul.io/docs/connect/index.html) provides service-to-service connection -authorization and encryption using mutual Transport Layer Security (TLS). Applications can use sidecar proxies in a service mesh -configuration to automatically establish TLS connections for inbound and outbound connections -without being aware of Connect at all. +[Consul Connect](https://www.consul.io/docs/connect/index.html) provides +service-to-service connection authorization and encryption using mutual +Transport Layer Security (TLS). Applications can use sidecar proxies in a +service mesh configuration to automatically establish TLS connections for +inbound and outbound connections without being aware of Connect at all. # Nomad with Consul Connect Integration -Nomad integrates with Consul to provide secure service-to-service communication between -Nomad jobs and task groups. In order to support Consul Connect, Nomad adds a new networking -mode for jobs that enables tasks in the same task group to share their networking stack. With -a few changes to the job specification, job authors can opt into Connect integration. When Connect -is enabled, Nomad will launch a proxy alongside the application in the job file. The proxy (Envoy) +Nomad integrates with Consul to provide secure service-to-service communication +between Nomad jobs and task groups. In order to support Consul Connect, Nomad +adds a new networking mode for jobs that enables tasks in the same task group to +share their networking stack. With a few changes to the job specification, job +authors can opt into Connect integration. When Connect is enabled, Nomad will +launch a proxy alongside the application in the job file. The proxy (Envoy) provides secure communication with other applications in the cluster. -Nomad job specification authors can use Nomad's Consul Connect integration to implement -[service segmentation](https://www.consul.io/segmentation.html) in a -microservice architecture running in public clouds without having to directly manage -TLS certificates. This is transparent to job specification authors as security features -in Connect continue to work even as the application scales up or down or gets rescheduled by Nomad. +Nomad job specification authors can use Nomad's Consul Connect integration to +implement [service segmentation](https://www.consul.io/segmentation.html) in a +microservice architecture running in public clouds without having to directly +manage TLS certificates. This is transparent to job specification authors as +security features in Connect continue to work even as the application scales up +or down or gets rescheduled by Nomad. # Nomad Consul Connect Example