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What is HashiCorp Consul?

HashiCorp Consul is a service networking solution that enables teams to manage secure network connectivity between services and across multi-cloud environments and runtimes. Consul offers service discovery, identity-based authorization, L7 traffic management, and service-to-service encryption. Consul offers a fully-featured service mesh solution that solves the networking and security challenges of operating microservices and cloud infrastructure (multi-cloud and hybrid cloud).

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Consul makes it simple for services to register themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface.

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Hashicorp
Year Founded
2012
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San Francisco, CA
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2,465 employees on LinkedIn®
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NASDAQ: HCP
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At HashiCorp, we believe infrastructure enables innovation, and we are helping organizations to operate that infrastructure in the cloud. Our suite of multi-cloud infrastructure automation products — all with open source projects at their core — underpin the most important applications for the largest enterprises in the world. As part of the once-in-a-generation shift to the cloud, organizations of all sizes, from well-known brands to ambitious start-ups, rely on our solutions to provision, secure, connect, and run their business-critical applications so they can deliver essential services, communications tools, and entertainment platforms worldwide.

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5.0 out of 5
"Using consul as part of container service"
I admire that Consul is relatively easy to operate. It is compliant with cloud-native standards which helps to integrate it. The best is that it ca...
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Deepak C.
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4.5 out of 5
"Consul: Best in class service discovery"
Hasicorp does everything right in terms of SaaS products, and consul is also on the same path. This is one of the best, if not the best service dis...
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"great tool better than zookeeper"
its cluster system way how it worked and worked evenly if one main node turned off
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HashiCorp Consul Demo - Registering_Dependent_Service_ConsulConnect.png
Registering a service "web" that registers "socat" as an upstream dependency in its sidecar registration. To learn more: https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/getting-started/connect
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Using the DNS API to retrieve the entire address/port pair as a SRV record. To learn more: https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/getting-started/services
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Starting Consul Agent in dev mode after Consul is installed. To learn more: https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/getting-started/agent
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To use an existing Consul cluster to manage services in Kubernetes, Consul clients can be deployed within the Kubernetes cluster. To learn more: https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/kubernetes/kubernetes/kubernetes-reference
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What do you like best about HashiCorp Consul?

Out of the box service discovery features. DNS management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

Less documents on integrations with other popular third party softwares and use cases to use in cloud native environments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Consul solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using consul in our on-premise servers to design highly available infrastructures Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about HashiCorp Consul?

I like the service discovery feature and ease of registration services of consul.

Also the secure DNS service provided by consul Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

Third party integrations are needed with most of the open source software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Consul solving and how is that benefiting you?

We create a self healing highly available webserver with consul Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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My favorite features of Consul is its Service Discovery and Distributed Configuration. As an application developer, having such a seamless service discovery tool allows me to focus on the business logic of my code rather than which instance of a server I need to interface with. The Key/Value configuration is also amazing for feature flags in my applications, as well as common config that multiple server instances need to share. The integration of Consul with Spring Boot is also a great plus, as it makes application development even easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

None so far. Keep on adding more helpful features to the Admin UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Consul solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using the Distributed Key/Value configuration, we are able to change properties on the fly that our applications use for business logic/rules. By not needing to write new code and deploy new instances of our applications, the customer experience is not interrupted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Service discovery, ease of learning and ease of maintenance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

Third party application integrations are limited Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Consul solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has helped us create highly available infrastructure and applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about HashiCorp Consul?

The following are the few features which I like about consul:

- Easy to use

- Can integrate with a git repository to keep track of the storage of the key-value

- It supports both one-way & two-way sync with the git repository.

- User Interface is quite user-friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

The following are the few points which I don't like much about Consul:

- Setting up it for the first time could be a bit tricky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Consul solving and how is that benefiting you?

Consul is used in my company by my team to store key-value securely. We generate the property file externally and bind it in the docker container. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about HashiCorp Consul?

Super easy to run, scale and use. The features make sense, and it's super helpful for both service discovery and runtime configuration change. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

Nothing, really. It's well maintained, and easy to run. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Consul solving and how is that benefiting you?

- service discovery

- service runtime configuration

- internal dns Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about HashiCorp Consul?

This software is very easy to use and an admin UI is available, so managing the key values is really easy.

Super scalable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

Did not find any specific problem. Expecting more features in future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Consul solving and how is that benefiting you?

Service discovery and distributed configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about HashiCorp Consul?

Really easy to setup.

An admin UI is available, so managing the key values is really easy.

Super scalable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

Bootstrap Consul the first time can give some headaches.

The first election of a master is always tricky, but after that it work like a charm Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering HashiCorp Consul:

Consul is super great, service discovery is really great.

Everything is build from the ground up for modern application and infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Consul solving and how is that benefiting you?

Consul some problem with:

Service discovery and distributed configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Great software to use, Super easy to figure out Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

The cost of this program is the only thing I have to complain about Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Consul solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helps with networking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about HashiCorp Consul?

Cluster management and multiple features offered Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

It would have been better if there was a feature to have common cluster for multiple regions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Great tool for service discovery and simple data store feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Consul solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data Store for a secret management solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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