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Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
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Language
Go
Contributors
736
Lines of Code
75,698
From
2013-11-04
To
2020-12-23
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About hashicorp/consul
Consul is a distributed service mesh and discovery platform built by HashiCorp in Go that enables secure communication and configuration management across dynamic infrastructure. It works across multiple datacenters without complex configuration and provides core functionality including automatic service registration and discovery, health checking with circuit breaker integration, and dynamic application configuration through an HTTP API. The platform supports Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows with an optional web-based UI.
The project implements a service mesh architecture that encrypts service-to-service communication with automatic TLS and identity-based authorization, supporting transparent proxy patterns for sidecar deployments. It also includes an API Gateway component for managing access to meshed services and defining traffic and authorization policies. These features allow operators to monitor cluster health in real-time and prevent routing to unhealthy services automatically.
Consul serves enterprises and organizations managing complex, distributed systems, with deployments supported on standalone infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, ECS, and HashiCorp's managed HCP offering. A commercial Enterprise version is available alongside the open-source project, and the codebase welcomes contributions through a documented process.
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