Guidance on usage: Consul Platform on Ubuntu 20.04 Minimal

Consul Platform on Ubuntu 20.04 Minimal simplifies connecting modern infrastructure components like containers, VMs, and bare metal servers, making it a powerful platform for developing distributed applications.

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Connecting to Consul Platform on Ubuntu 20.04 Minimal

To start the server, run the VM through Azure Portal.

  1. For the connection to the server, you should know the IP address of the VM. You can find it in the personal account of Azure. You need to select the virtual machine from the list. By clicking the item “Overview”, your IP is displayed in the line “Public IP Address”
  1. To work, you must open TCP ports 22, 8300, 8301, 8302, 8500, 8600, and UDP ports 8301, 8302, and 8600 in the network properties in the Azure firewall.
  1. To manage with a Consul server, you should connect to a VM.
    • With OpenSSH

In the Windows 10 operating system (starting with version 1809), an OpenSSH client is available, with which you can connect to Linux servers via SSH. If Windows 10 is suitable and the OpenSSH client is installed, you can start connecting via SSH. To do this, launch a normal Windows command prompt and enter the command “ssh user@*vm_ip*” (1), where “user” is the username that was specified while creating the virtual machine and “*vm_ip*” is the VM IP address.

Then type “Yes” (2) and enter a password (3) that was specified while creating the virtual machine.

  • With the PuTTY application 

To do this, you need the PuTTY application to connect via SSH. You can download it at the following link – Download

Run Putty, enter the VM address in the “Host” field (1), and click “Open” (2) to connect.

In the opened console, you will need to enter a username (1) and password (2) that were specified while the VM was being created (you’ll not see the password in the console while entering it). 

  1. To check the currently installed version, use command: consul version
  1. For a complete list of commands, type consul

To get more information, use Consul Guides

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