HashiCorp Consul

HashiCorp Consul is a service networking solution that provides service discovery, health checking, distributed key-value storage, and a service mesh. It enables dynamic infrastructure to connect and secure services across any runtime or cloud environment.

Key facts

First appeared: 2014
Category: technology
Problem solved: Consul was created to address the significant challenges of managing dynamic, distributed microservices in modern infrastructure. It provides automated service discovery, centralized configuration, and secure service-to-service communication, thereby simplifying the complexities of building and operating highly scalable, resilient applications across various environments.
Platforms: Bare Metal, macOS, Linux, AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, Windows

Related technologies

HashiCorp Nomad
Envoy Proxy
Prometheus
HashiCorp Terraform
Grafana
Docker
HashiCorp Vault
Kubernetes

Notable users

Barclays
Datadog
Stripe
SAP
Roblox
Many Fortune 500 companies adopting cloud-native architectures