Commit 9df4f5db authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Merge branch 'ha-consul-clarification' into 'master'

Clarify what is Consul and what it can be used for within GitLab

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!30107
parents 42d3da5c b9c43795
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# Working with the bundled Consul service **(PREMIUM ONLY)**
As part of its High Availability stack, GitLab Premium includes a bundled version of [Consul](https://www.consul.io/) that can be managed through `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`.
As part of its High Availability stack, GitLab Premium includes a bundled version of [Consul](https://www.consul.io/) that can be managed through `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`. Consul is a service networking solution. When it comes to [GitLab Architecture](../../development/architecture.md), Consul utilization is supported for configuring:
1. [Monitoring in Scaled and Highly Available environments](monitoring_node.md)
1. [PostgreSQL High Availability with Omnibus](database.md#high-availability-with-gitlab-omnibus-premium-only)
A Consul cluster consists of multiple server agents, as well as client agents that run on other nodes which need to talk to the Consul cluster.
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