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Class 7: Dude Where's My Services: Introduction to Service Discovery with Consul
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During this lab you will make use of Terraform to deploy a BIG-IP, Consul
Server, and NGINX nodes.

Once these devices are deployed you will use Terraform to install AS3
onto the BIG-IP and deploy an AS3 declaration to use Consul for Service
Discovery to create a pool of the NGINX nodes.

You will then modify the Auto-Scale group of NGINX nodes to observe how
Consul get detect the new NGINX nodes and the BIG-IP will also be updated.

Steps You will Peform
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#. Connect to AWS Console
#. Use Terraform to deploy AWS infrastructure, Consul, NGINX, and BIG-IP instances
#. Use Terraform to install AS3 on BIG-IP and deploy AS3 configuration
#. Observe that AS3 is deployed and using Consul to detect location of NGINX instances
#. Use AWS autoscale to increase the number of NGINX instances and observe that Consul and BIG-IP detect the increase in NGINX instances automatically


Terms Used in this Lab
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About Terraform
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Terraform is an automation tool from HashiCorp that can be used to automate and stardize infrastructure deployments.

About Consul
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Consul is software created by HashiCorp that provides service discovery of infrastructure.  Typically it makes use of a Consul agent that will register services with the Consul server.  This allows mutable infrastructure that can scale-out/in and always be identified at the correct location (IP address).

About BIG-IP
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F5 BIG-IP is a platform that can provide many high-availibility, security, and telemetry services in a reverse-proxy.

About AS3
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Application Services Extension 3 (AS3) provides a declarative interface to the BIG-IP that enables ecosystem partners like HashiCorp to easily integrate with BIG-IP solutions.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
   :caption: Contents:

   aws-console
   terraform-1
   aws-marketplace          
   terraform-2
   aws-auto-scale
   nia
   clean-up