github.com/outbrain/consul@v1.4.5/website/source/docs/internals/acl.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "docs" 3 page_title: "ACL System" 4 sidebar_current: "docs-internals-acl" 5 description: |- 6 Consul provides an optional Access Control List (ACL) system which can be used to control access to data and APIs. The ACL system is a Capability-based system that relies on tokens which can have fine grained rules applied to them. It is very similar to AWS IAM in many ways. 7 --- 8 9 # ACL System 10 11 This content has been moved into the [ACL Guide](/docs/guides/acl.html). 12 13 <a name="version_8_acls"></a> 14 See [Complete ACL Coverage in Consul 0.8](/docs/guides/acl.html#complete-acl-coverage-in-consul-0-8) 15 for details about ACL changes in Consul 0.8 and later.