HashiCorp Consul

What is HashiCorp Consul?

HashiCorp Consul is a comprehensive service networking solution that enables teams to manage secure network connectivity between services across multi-cloud environments and runtime platforms. Consul offers a range of features, including service discovery, identity-based authorization, Layer 7 traffic management, and end-to-end service-to-service encryption, addressing the networking and security challenges of operating microservices and cloud infrastructure

Highlights

• Service Discovery: Consul provides a service discovery feature that allows users to locate applications or infrastructure services via HTTP and DNS, facilitating network connectivity and routing
• Health Checks: Consul's health check functionality enables engineers to determine if a service is able to receive traffic or handle requests, allowing them to direct routing requests to other systems as necessary
• Traffic Management: Consul helps administrators manage visitor traffic from multiple endpoints and improve application resiliency by applying various traffic management methods, such as service failover, path-based routing, and traffic shifting
• Centralized Configuration: Consul's centralized configuration capabilities provide users with insights into application behavior and performance through networking metrics, distributed tracing, and logging via proxies
• Multi-Datacenter Support: Consul supports multiple datacenters, helping organizations prevent downtime and improve data recovery during connectivity issues or datacenter failure.