HCP Consul is now generally available on AWS. HCP Consul is a fully managed service mesh to discover and securely connect any service.
We are pleased to announce that HashiCorp Consul is now generally available as a fully managed service for AWS environments on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP). HCP Consul is the first fully managed service mesh solution operated and maintained by the experts who built the product. HCP Consul provides a simple service discovery tool and an easy path to adopt service mesh for both individuals and organizations while reducing the operational burden of running it in production. In this blog, we’ll review some of the capabilities of HCP Consul, talk about new features, and explain how pricing for this managed service works.
HCP Consul is designed to help minimize the steps necessary to use Consul within your AWS environments. At a high level, here are the four tasks that users need to accomplish in order to start using HCP Consul:
While these steps depict a basic workflow for getting started with HCP Consul, we recognize that they are slightly more intricate in practice. To help users get started, we have created a series of Learn guides to help with some of these steps.
We are also pleased to announce the availability of a new HashiCorp Terraform provider for HCP. This provider gives users another way to quickly provision and manage their HCP Consul resources through a familiar workflow. Users can configure the HVN region, create organizations, and peer their VPCs through this process. Here’s an example of a new HCP HVN definition:
At this time the Terraform Provider for HCP only supports HCP Consul, but we plan to add support for HCP Vault (currently in public beta) to the provider soon. To get started using the Terraform Provider for HCP, please follow this learn guide.
At launch, HCP Consul is currently generally available in AWS regions in the U.S. (Oregon and Virginia) and Europe (London, Frankfurt, and Ireland). We plan to add additional region options in the U.S. and Europe and expanding to other parts of the world in the near future.
For pricing, HCP Consul offers the following packages:
To review our pricing information, please visit our HCP Consul pricing page.
For a more detailed dive into how to get started with HCP Consul, read this blog. We are very excited about making HCP Consul generally available to the public. We recommend creating an HCP account and trying HCP Consul for yourself. For more information about HCP Consul and pricing, please visit our product page or sign up through the HCP portal directly. To learn more about HCP Consul and Vault, join us for a webinar on February 9.
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Configure Consul’s transparent proxy on virtual machines to find and connect to services in the service mesh with DNS.
HCS on Azure has been deprecated. HCP Consul on Azure is the preferred way to run your HashiCorp Consul clusters on Microsoft Azure.