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Stop relying on fragile firewall rules. Learn how to use Consul Connect Intentions to declaratively control service-to-service communication without changing a single line of code.
Learn how to use Consul's health-aware DNS to prevent routing traffic to failing service instances, including configuration examples and DNS caching pitfalls.
Stop relying on static IP addresses in your microservices. Learn how Consul uses a service registry and health checks to provide dynamic DNS-based discovery.
Learn how to use Consul Prepared Queries to create stable, named service filters for DNS and HTTP, reducing application complexity and managing failover targets.
Consul Raft snapshots capture the entire Raft state at a specific index and term, including the KV store, service catalog, prepared queries, ACLs, and Connect CA and intentions data. Snapshot restore is destructive and overwrites the full Raft state on the target server. The integration boundary between the snapshot mechanism and the data plane state is the