Consul Connect

Consul's built-in service mesh with mTLS and intentions.

Provider: default
Kind: Service mesh
Category: Operations
Official docs: https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/docs/connect

Properties · 3 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
circuitBreaking	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
controlPlanes	integer	—	no	—	inherited
intentionsDefaultDeny · component property	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
mtls	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
retries	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
sidecar	boolean	—	no	true	▸ true

Rules that apply · 0

Every rule whose selector covers this component's kind or its category. Whether a rule fires depends on the design: its properties, its edges and its groups.

No rule reads this kind yet. That is a gap, not a guarantee.

Use it in a design

nodes:
  - { id: "consul-connect", component: "consul-connect" }

Other Service mesh products · 11

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# Consul Connect: sidecar mesh with mTLS by default; intentions default-allow unless ACLs deny.
3schemaVersion: "1"
4type: "component"
5id: "consul-connect"
6kind: "service-mesh"
7provider: "default"
8docs: "https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/docs/connect"
9defaults:
10  managed: false
11  sidecar: true
12  mtls: true
13properties:
14  intentionsDefaultDeny:
15    type: "boolean"
16    default: false

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/consul-connect.md