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Backport of docs: warn about Consul auth method locality into release/1.8.x #24285

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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion website/content/docs/integrations/consul/acl.mdx
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Expand Up @@ -109,7 +109,10 @@ Nomad uses to sign workload identities. With these keys, Consul is able to
validate their origin and confirm that they were actually created by Nomad.

Nomad cannot recreate Consul tokens that have been deleted. The auth method
configuration should never set the `MaxTokenTTL` field.
configuration should never set the `MaxTokenTTL` field. Consul tokens are
local to the Consul datacenter unless you set `TokenLocality: "global"` in the
auth method. We recommend using local tokens, which is the default. Global tokens
require that the primary Consul datacenter is available when allocations start.

<CodeBlockConfig highlight="2" filename="auth-method.json">

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