HashiCorp Certified: Consul Associate (002) Exam

HashiCorp Certified: Consul Associate (002) Exam

The HashiCorp Certified: Consul Associate (002) certification validates your proficiency in the fundamentals of HashiCorp Consul, an open-source tool for service discovery and orchestration within infrastructure environments. By earning this credential, you demonstrate your ability to leverage Consul's functionalities to effectively manage service registration, health checks, and secure service communication across your infrastructure.

Who Should Take This Exam?

• Cloud Engineers: Aspiring or existing cloud engineers specializing in security, development, or operations, seeking to strengthen their knowledge of service discovery with Consul.
• Site Reliability Engineers (SREs): Individuals working in SRE roles who want to effectively manage and orchestrate services within their infrastructure.
• Network Engineers: Network engineers seeking to understand how Consul can be used for service discovery and network segmentation.
• Operations Professionals: Anyone working with microservices architectures who wants to gain proficiency in using Consul to manage service communication and health.

Course Outline

The HashiCorp Certified: Consul Associate Exam covers the following topics - 

• Explain Consul architecture
• Deploy a single datacenter
• Register services and use service discovery
• Access the Consul key/value (KV)
• Back up and restore
• Use Consul service mesh
• Secure agent communication
• Secure services with basic access control lists (ACL)
• Use gossip encryption