Lightning Talk: Automate and Secure Consul Service Mesh on AWS ECS
summary
Shows how to run a single datacenter Consul service mesh with Consul on HCP and Consul clients as sidecars plus Envoy on AWS ECS Fargate or EC2. Uses a provided mesh task Terraform module, an ACL controller to inject tokens, and AWS Secrets Manager for gossip and CA keys. Demonstrates default deny intentions, mutual TLS, and a TTL health check that is manually failed to trigger automatic failover. Roadmap notes GA support for ECS health checks and CDK integration.
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