HashiCorp Consul is a service networking solution that enables teams to manage secure network connectivity between services and across on-prem and multi-cloud environments and runtimes. Consul offers service discovery, service mesh, traffic management, and automated updates to network infrastructure device. You can use these features individually or together in a single Consul deployment.
> **Hands-on**: Complete the Getting Started tutorials to learn how to deploy Consul:
- [Get Started on Kubernetes](/consul/tutorials/gs-consul-service-mesh)
- [Get Started on VMs](/consul/tutorials/getting-started)
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### Run an agent
The Consul agent must be running in order to dynamically update network devices. Refer to the [Consul agent documentation](/consul/docs/agent) for information about configuring and starting a Consul agent. For hands-on instructions about running Consul agents, refer to the [Getting Started: Run the Consul Agent Tutorial](/consul/tutorials/getting-started/get-started-agent).
The Consul agent must be running in order to dynamically update network devices. Refer to the [Consul agent documentation](/consul/docs/agent) for information about configuring and starting a Consul agent.
When running a Consul agent with CTS in production, consider that CTS uses [blocking queries](/consul/api-docs/features/blocking) to monitor task dependencies, such as changes to registered services. This results in multiple long-running TCP connections between CTS and the agent to poll changes for each dependency. Consul may quickly reach the agent connection limits if CTS is monitoring a high number of services.
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For more details on registering a service using the HTTP API endpoint, refer to the [register service API docs](/consul/api-docs/agent/service#register-service).
For hands-on instructions on registering a service by loading a service definition, refer to the [Getting Started: Register a Service with Consul Service Discovery Tutorial](/consul/tutorials/getting-started/get-started-service-discovery).
For hands-on instructions on registering a service by loading a service definition, refer to the [Getting Started: Register a Service with Consul Service Discovery Tutorial](/consul/tutorials/get-started-vms/virtual-machine-gs-service-discovery).
### Run a cluster
For production environments, we recommend operating a Consul cluster rather than a single agent. Refer to [Getting Started: Create a Local Consul Datacenter](/consul/tutorials/getting-started/get-started-create-datacenter) for instructions on starting multiple Consul agents and joining them into a cluster.
For production environments, we recommend operating a Consul cluster rather than a single agent. Refer to [Getting Started: Deploy a Consul Datacenter Tutorial](/consul/tutorials/get-started-vms/virtual-machine-gs-deploy) for instructions on starting multiple Consul agents and joining them into a cluster.
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