Question 1
What is the primary purpose of service discovery in Consul?
Correct Answer:
To let clients find service instances by logical name instead of hardcoded IP addresses
Question 2
In Consul service networking, what provides service-to-service encryption without requiring the application itself to implement mutual TLS?
Correct Answer:
Sidecar proxies in the service mesh
Question 3
Which Consul component is designed to provide a controlled entry point from external clients into services in the mesh?
Correct Answer:
Ingress gateway
Question 4
What problem is Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS) primarily used to solve?
Correct Answer:
Keeping network infrastructure configuration synchronized with service changes in Consul
Question 5
Why does Consul combine service discovery with health checks?
Correct Answer:
So only instances with passing checks are typically returned for healthy lookups
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