From d1826c026fdc0cd2a5cf0b2ba7111e734d4b6df0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Yu Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 16:18:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] README: Consul Readme improvements (#14773) * README: Consul Readme improvements Co-authored-by: Tu Nguyen --- README.md | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 44556afdff..e76c4588b6 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ Consul provides several key features: * **Multi-Datacenter** - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can support any number of regions without complex configuration. -* **Service Mesh/Service Segmentation** - Consul Connect enables secure service-to-service +* **Service Mesh** - Consul Service Mesh enables secure service-to-service communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization. Applications can use sidecar proxies in a service mesh configuration to establish TLS - connections for inbound and outbound connections without being aware of Connect at all. + connections for inbound and outbound connections with Transparent Proxy. * **Service Discovery** - Consul makes it simple for services to register themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface. @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Consul provides several key features: Consul runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows and includes an optional [browser based UI](https://demo.consul.io). A commercial version -called [Consul Enterprise](https://www.hashicorp.com/products/consul) is also +called [Consul Enterprise](https://www.consul.io/docs/enterprise) is also available. **Please note**: We take Consul's security and our users' trust very seriously. If you @@ -52,12 +52,11 @@ A few quick start guides are available on the Consul website: * **Minikube install:** https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/kubernetes-minikube * **Kind install:** https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/kubernetes-kind * **Kubernetes install:** https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/kubernetes-deployment-guide +* **Deploy HCP Consul:** https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/hcp-gs-deploy ## Documentation -Full, comprehensive documentation is available on the Consul website: - -https://www.consul.io/docs +Full, comprehensive documentation is available on the Consul website: https://consul.io/docs ## Contributing