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Service Mesh Made Easy

Consul is a distributed service mesh to connect, secure, and configure services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud

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Service-based networking for dynamic infrastructure

The shift from static infrastructure to dynamic infrastructure changes the approach to networking from host-based to service-based. Connectivity moves from the use of static IPs to dynamic service discovery, and security moves from static firewalls to dynamic service segmentation.

Static

Host-based networking static, host-based networking

Dynamic

Service-based networking

Use Cases

Service Discovery for connectivity

Service Registry enables services to register and discover each other.

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Service Segmentation for security

Secure service-to-service communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization.

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Service Configuration for runtime configuration

Feature rich Key/Value store to easily configure services.

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Consul Principles

API-Driven

Codify and automate service definitions, health checks, service authorization policies, failover logic, and more.

$ curl http://localhost:8500/v1/kv/deployment
[
  {
    "LockIndex": 1,
    "Session": "1c3f5836-4df4-0e26-6697-90dcce78acd9",
    "Value": "Zm9v",
    "Flags": 0,
    "Key": "deployment",
    "CreateIndex": 13,
    "ModifyIndex": 19
  }
]

Run and Connect Anywhere

Connect services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud. Connect services from Kubernetes to VMs, Containers to Serverless functions.