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Hosted on HashiCorp Cloud Platform, HCP Consul is a fully managed service mesh that discovers and securely connects any service.

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Service Mesh for any runtime or cloud

Consul automates networking for simple and secure application delivery.

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Consul Service Mesh on Kubernetes

Use Helm to deploy and CRDs to configure Consul on Kubernetes.

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Consul as a Service Mesh

Simplify, observe, and secure service to service communication for microservice architectures.

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Why Consul?

Service Mesh Across Any Runtime

Service Mesh Across Any Runtime

Deploy service mesh within any runtime or infrastructure - Bare Metal, Virtual Machines, and Kubernetes clusters, across any cloud.

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Secure, Multi-Cloud Service Networking

Secure, Multi-Cloud Service Networking

Secure services running in any environment leveraging intention based policies and automatic mTLS encryption between service mesh resources

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Dynamic Load Balancing

Dynamic Load Balancing

Resolve discovered services through integrated DNS. Automate 3rd party load balancers (F5, NGINX, HAProxy). Eliminate manual configuration of network devices.

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Service Discovery with Health Checking

Service Discovery with Health Checking

Consul enables detecting the deployment of new services, changes to existing ones, and provides real time agent health to reduce downtime.

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Robust Ecosystem

Robust Ecosystem

Consul offers support for and integrations with many popular DevOps and Networking tools.

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Integrate and Extend With Kubernetes

Integrate and Extend With Kubernetes

Quickly deploy Consul on Kubernetes leveraging Helm. Automatically inject sidecars for Kubernetes resources. Federate multiple clusters into a single service mesh.

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Deploy HCP Consul with Terraform

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Migrate to Microservices on Kubernetes

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  • Consul lets us spread more than 200 microservices over several AKS clusters. Each AKS cluster feeds into a Consul cluster that forms a larger service discovery mesh that allows us to find and connect services in a matter of minutes.

    Sriram Govindarajan
    Sriram Govindarajan

    Principal Infrastructure Engineer, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development (MBRDNA)

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  • Consul has fully replaced our manual service discovery activities with automated workflows and we’ve repurposed as much as 80% of our Consul staff to other projects because the tool is so reliable, efficient, and intelligent.

    Pierre Souchay
    Pierre Souchay

    Discovery and Security Authorization Lead, Criteo

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Use Cases

Service Discovery and Health Checking

Enable services to locate other services running in any environment and provide real-time health status.

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Network Infrastructure Automation

Reduce burden of manual, ticket-based networking tasks.

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Multi-Platform Service Mesh

Secure, modern application networking across any cloud or runtime.

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HCP Consul

Available on AWS

A fully managed service mesh to discover and securely connect any service.

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When to consider Consul Enterprise

Open Source

Technical Complexity

Consul Open Source enables individuals to discover services and securely manage connections between them across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.

Enterprise

Organizational Complexity

Consul Enterprise provides the foundation for organizations to build an enterprise-ready service networking environment for multiple teams by enabling governance capabilities.

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Consul Open Source addresses the technical complexity of managing production services by providing a way to discover, automate, secure and connect applications and networking configurations across distributed infrastructure and clouds.

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