Basics

Question 1

Consul is a distributed system designed to run on

Answer 1

a cluster of nodes

Question 2

A node can be

Answer 2

a physical server, cloud instance, virtual machine, or container

Question 3

Connected together, the set of nodes Consul runs on is called

Answer 3

a datacenter

Question 4

Within the datacenter, Consul can run in two modes

Answer 4

server or client.

Question 5

Server agents maintain _ for Consul.

Answer 5

the consistent state

Question 6

Clients are _ that run on _.

Answer 6

a light-weight process

every node where services are running

Question 7

A datacenter will have _ servers and many _.

Answer 7

between 3 - 5

clients

Question 8

Draw a consul client-server architecture

Answer 8

https://learn.hashicorp.com/img/consul/consul-dc.png

Question 9

Consul runs as a _. _ and Consul will still function.

Answer 9

single binary namedconsul

Any other files in the package can be safely removed