Getting Started with Consul: Run the Consul Agent
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After Consul is installed, the agent must be run. The agent can run either in server or client mode. Each datacenter must have at least one server, though a cluster of 3 or 5 servers is recommended. A single server deployment is highly discouraged as data loss is inevitable in a failure scenario.
All other agents run in client mode. A client is a very lightweight process that registers services, runs health checks, and forwards queries to servers. The agent must be running on every node that is part of the cluster.
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