HashiCorp Certified: Consul Associate (003)

Validates foundational knowledge of HashiCorp Consul for service networking, service mesh, and service discovery. Covers the pillars of service networking, Consul architecture including server and client agents, single datacenter deployment, service registration and discovery via DNS and API, service mesh with intentions and proxies, securing agent communication with TLS and gossip encryption, ACL-based access control, gateways for cross-datacenter connectivity, observability, and operational maintenance including backup and troubleshooting. Designed for cloud engineers specializing in security, networking, development, or operations. Requires familiarity with Consul Enterprise features.