Toggle navigation Download Github Intro Docs Community Documentation Home Upgrading and Compatibility Upgrading Consul Compatibility Promise Consul Internals Architecture Consensus Protocol Gossip Protocol Security Model Jepsen Testing Consul Commands (CLI) agent force-leave join keygen leave members monitor info Consul Agent Running and Stopping DNS Interface HTTP API Configuration Service Definitions Check Definitions Encryption RPC Protocol Telemetry Guides Adding/Removing Servers Bootstrapping DNS Forwarding External Services Multiple Datacenters Outage Recovery Consul is a complex system that has many different moving parts. To help users and developers of Consul form a mental model of how it works, this page documents the system architecture. Advanced Topic! This page cove...