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@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ The Consul agent is the core process of Consul. The agent maintains membership
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information, registers services, runs checks, responds to queries,
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and more. The agent must run on every node that is part of a Consul cluster.
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Any Agent may run in one of two modes: client or server. A server
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Any agent may run in one of two modes: client or server. A server
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node takes on the additional responsibility of being part of the [consensus quorum](#).
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These nodes take part in Raft and provide strong consistency and availability in
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the case of failure. The higher burden on the server nodes means that usually they
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