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»Consul Enterprise

Consul Enterprise features address the organizational complexities of collaboration, operations, scale, and governance. If you have purchased or wish to try out Consul Enterprise, refer to how to access Consul Enterprise.

»Enterprise Features

The following features are available in several forms of Consul Enterprise.

»Multi-Tenancy

  • Admin Partitions: Define administrative boundaries between tenants within a single Consul datacenter
  • Namespaces: Define resource boundaries within a single admin partition for further organizational flexibility

»Resiliency

  • Automated Backups: Configure the automatic backup of Consul state
  • Redundancy Zones: Deploy backup voting Consul servers to efficiently improve Consul fault tolerance

»Scalability

  • Read Replicas: Deploy non-voting Consul servers to enhance the scalability of read requests

»Operational Simplification

  • Automated Upgrades: Ease upgrades by automating the transition from existing to newly deployed Consul servers
  • Consul-Terraform-Sync Enterprise: Leverage the enhanced network infrastructure automation capabilities of the enterprise version of Consul-Terraform-Sync

»Complex Network Topology Support

  • Network Areas: Support complex network topologies between federated Consul datacenters with pairwise federation rather than full mesh federation
  • Network Segments: Support complex network topologies within a Consul datacenter by enforcing boundaries in Consul client gossip traffic

»Governance

  • OIDC Auth Method: Manage user access to Consul through an OIDC identity provider instead of Consul ACL tokens directly
  • Audit Logging: Understand Consul access and usage patterns by reviewing access to the Consul HTTP API
  • Sentinel for KV: Policy-as-code framework for defining advanced key-value storage access control policies

»Access Consul Enterprise

The method of accessing Consul Enterprise and its features depends on the whether using HashiCorp Cloud Platform or self-managed Consul.

»HCP Consul

No action is required to access Consul Enterprise in a HashiCorp Cloud Platform installation.

You can try out HCP Consul for free. Refer to the HCP Consul product page for more details.

»Self-Managed Consul

To access Consul Enterprise in a self-managed installation, apply a purchased license to the Consul Enterprise binary that grants access to the desired features.

You can also try out Consul Enterprise before purchasing by requesting a 30-day trial license.

»Consul Enterprise Feature Availability

Consul Enterprise is offered in several forms that provide a different mix of enterprise features. Choose the form that best suits the needs of your organization.

Available enterprise features per Consul form and license include:

FeatureHashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) ConsulConsul EnterpriseLegacy Consul Enterprise (module-based)
Consul servers as a managed serviceYesNo (self-managed)No (self-managed)
Admin PartitionsAll tiersYesWith Governance and Policy module
NamespacesAll tiersYesWith Governance and Policy module
Automated BackupsAll tiersYesYes
Redundancy ZonesNot applicableYesWith Global Visibility, Routing, and Scale module
Read ReplicasNoYesWith Global Visibility, Routing, and Scale module
Automated UpgradesAll tiersYesYes
Consul-Terraform-Sync EnterpriseAll tiersYesYes
Network AreasNoYesWith Global Visibility, Routing, and Scale module
Network SegmentsNoYesWith Global Visibility, Routing, and Scale module
OIDC Auth MethodNoYesYes
Audit LoggingStandard tier and aboveYesWith Governance and Policy module
Sentinel for KVAll tiersYesWith Governance and Policy module
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