HashiCorp Consul is a multi-cloud service networking platform that provides organizations with identity-based service networking capabilities. It enables service discovery, secure communication, and network automation across multiple cloud and runtime environments. Consul offers features for discovering, securing, automating, and scaling service networking solutions.

Key Features

Service Discovery Consul provides a dynamic service directory for multi-cloud, Kubernetes, VMs, and on-premises environments.

• Enables service registration, discovery, and monitoring
• Supports multi-platform service discovery

Service Mesh Consul's service mesh ensures secure and authorized service-to-service communication.

• Offers encryption, observability, and resilience for application traffic
• Enables identity-based authorization and service-to-service encryption

Network Automation Consul automates complex networking tasks to streamline application deployment and operations.

• Automates load balancers, firewalls, gateways, VPNs, and more
• Reduces manual processes and deployment time

Benefits

Accelerated Development Consul speeds up the development lifecycle by 41% through multi-platform service discovery and health monitoring.

• Enables faster service deployment and scaling
• Provides automated discovery for any scale

Improved Operational Efficiency Organizations can achieve a 26% increase in operational efficiencies with Consul.

• Centralizes management and automates networking tasks
• Optimizes operations and saves time and resources

Enhanced Security Consul enables the adoption of modern application networking and zero-trust practices.

• Provides identity-based authorization and service-to-service encryption
• Offers centralized and granular access control across multiple environments