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# Next Steps

That concludes the getting started guide for Consul. Hopefully you're able to
see that while Consul is simple to use, it has a powerful set of features.
We've covered the basics for all of these features in this guide.

Consul is designed to be friendly to both the DevOps community and
application developers, making it perfect for modern, elastic infrastructures.

As a next step, the following resources are available:

* [Documentation](/docs/index.html) - The documentation is an in-depth reference
  guide to all the features of Consul, including technical details about the
  internals of how Consul operates.

* [Guides](/docs/guides/index.html) - This section provides various getting
  started guides with Consul, including how to bootstrap a new datacenter.

* [Examples](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/tree/master/demo) -
  The work-in-progress examples folder within the GitHub
  repository for Consul contains functional examples of various use cases
  of Consul to help you get started with exactly what you need.

