Chapter 19: Understanding the Consul Service Mesh

1. False – Consul is a distributed control plane.
2. True – The Consul agent must run on all Kubernetes nodes.
3. True – Consul services can be viewed as North-South network traffic, whereas Ingress gateways to multiple Kubernetes clusters can be treated as East-West network traffic.
4. False – The Mesh gateway does not decrypt network traffic between two gateways to determine the destination service.
5. True – Consul service discovery in a Kubernetes environment is automatic.
6. True – Consul supports multiple data centers out of the box.