Configuration Entries

Configuration entries can be used to configure the behavior of Consul Connect.

The following configuration entries are supported:

• Ingress Gateway - defines the configuration for an ingress gateway

• Proxy Defaults - controls proxy configuration

• Service Defaults - configures defaults for all the instances of a given service

• Service Intentions - defines the intentions for a destination service

• Service Resolver - matches service instances with a specific Connect upstream discovery requests

• Service Router - defines where to send layer 7 traffic based on the HTTP route

• Service Splitter - defines how to divide requests for a single HTTP route based on percentages

• Terminating Gateway - defines the services associated with terminating gateway

Managing Configuration Entries

See Agent - Config Entries.

Using Configuration Entries For Service Defaults

Outside of Kubernetes, when the agent is configured to enable central service configurations, it will look for service configuration defaults that match a registering service instance. If it finds any, the agent will merge those defaults with the service instance configuration. This allows for things like service protocol or proxy configuration to be defined globally and inherited by any affected service registrations.