page_title: Consul Clients Outside of Kubernetes - Kubernetes
page_title: Join External Clients to Consul on Kubernetes
description: >-
Consul clients running on non-Kubernetes nodes can join a Consul cluster
running within Kubernetes.
Client agents running on VMs that are not part of a Kubernetes cluster can join a service mesh that has agents running on k8s pods. Configure client agents to accept gRPC communication to join VMs to Kubernetes pods.
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# Consul Clients Outside Kubernetes
# Join External Clients to Consul on Kubernetes
Consul clients running on non-Kubernetes nodes can join a Consul cluster running within Kubernetes.
description: Configuration for running Consul Enterprise
page_title: Deploy Consul Enterprise on Kubernetes
description: >-
Consul Enterprise features are available when running Consul on Kubernetes. Learn how to apply your license in the Helm chart and return the license information with the `consul license get` command.
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# Consul Enterprise
# Deploy Consul Enterprise on Kubernetes
You can use this Helm chart to deploy Consul Enterprise by following a few extra steps.
page_title: Consul Servers Outside of Kubernetes - Kubernetes
description: Running Consul servers outside of Kubernetes
page_title: Join External Servers to Consul on Kubernetes
description: >-
Client agents that run on Kubernetes pods can join existing clusters whose server agents run outside of k8s. Learn how to expose gossip ports and bootstrap ACLs by configuring the Helm chart.
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# Consul Servers Outside of Kubernetes
# Join External Servers to Consul on Kubernetes
If you have a Consul cluster already running, you can configure your
Consul clients inside Kubernetes to join this existing cluster.
page_title: Single Consul Datacenter in Multiple Kubernetes Clusters - Kubernetes
description: Single Consul Datacenter deployed in multiple Kubernetes clusters
page_title: Deploy Single Consul Datacenter Across Multiple K8s Clusters
description: >-
A single Consul datacenter can run across multiple Kubernetes pods in a flat network as long as only one pod has server agents. Learn how to configure the Helm chart, deploy pods in sequence, and verify your service mesh.
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# Single Consul Datacenter in Multiple Kubernetes Clusters
# Deploy Single Consul Datacenter Across Multiple Kubernetes Clusters
~> **Note:** When running Consul across multiple Kubernetes clusters, we recommend using [admin partitions](/docs/enterprise/admin-partitions) for production environments. This Consul Enterprise feature allows you to accommodate multiple tenants without resource collisions when administering a cluster at scale. Admin partitions also enable you to run Consul on Kubernetes clusters across a non-flat network.
boruszak
2 years ago