We've started our first agent and registered and queried a service on that
agent. This showed how easy it is to use Consul but didn't show how this could
be extended to a scalable, production-grade service discovery infrastructure.
agent. Additionally, we've configured Consul Connect to automatically authorize and encrypt connections between services. This showed how easy it is to use Consul but didn't show how this could be extended to a scalable, production-grade service mesh infrastructure.
In this step, we'll create our first real cluster with multiple members.
When a Consul agent is started, it begins without knowledge of any other node: