Consul Service Mesh Tutorial for Beginners [Crash Course]

This post explains the concept of a service mesh and why it's popular in cloud and DevOps. It introduces Consul, a specific implementation of a service mesh, and discusses its architecture and practical use cases. The post highlights the complexities of operating microservices in various environments and how Consul can address these challenges, including communication, security, and monitoring between services. It also outlines a demo of deploying and using Consul across two Kubernetes clusters in different cloud platforms.