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HashiCorp Consul Enterprise Supports VMware NSX Service Mesh Federation
HashiCorp Consul Enterprise Supports VMware NSX Service Mesh Federation

Consul Enterprise supports VMware's new open source specification to facilitate service mesh federation between multiple mesh technologies. Read the blog to learn more.

HashiCorp Consul 1.6 General Availability
HashiCorp Consul 1.6 General Availability

We're really excited to announce the general availability of Consul 1.6.0. Consul is a multi-cloud service networking platform to connect and secure services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud. This release is focused on several major new features for Consul Connect, Consul's service mesh solution, inlcuding Layer 7 traffic management and mesh gateways.

Canary deployments with Consul Service Mesh
Canary deployments with Consul Service Mesh

In this blog, we walked you through the steps required to perform Canary deployments using traffic splitting and resolution at Layer 7. This feature is included in the newly released Consul 1.6. Read this step-by-step post to learn more.

HashiCorp Consul 1.6: Dynamic Traffic Management and Gateways
HashiCorp Consul 1.6: Dynamic Traffic Management and Gateways

We are excited to announce the beta release of HashiCorp Consul 1.6. Consul is a multi-cloud service networking platform to connect and secure services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud. Consul 1.6 is focused on building a full-featured service mesh which supports multi-region and multi-cloud scale, with new major features including Layer 7 capabilities and mesh gateway.

Consul UI Improvements
Consul UI Improvements

In the recent releases there were many updates to the Consul UI. Some of these might have gone unnoticed, but make a big impact on the user experience of the UI. In this article we will explore the changes made to the UI in the recent updates and take a look at what is coming in future updates.

Layer 7 Observability with Consul Service Mesh
Layer 7 Observability with Consul Service Mesh

We are publishing a series of blog posts to discuss the core use cases of service mesh. In this blog we will take a closer look at observability and how to enable the new L7 observability features of Consul Connect that are included in the recent Consul 1.5 release.

HashiCorp Consul 1.5
HashiCorp Consul 1.5

We are excited to announce the release of Consul 1.5.0. This release contains new Layer 7 capabilities, major improvements with ACL and a host of new features.

Roadmap Preview: What’s Next for Consul Service Mesh
Roadmap Preview: What’s Next for Consul Service Mesh

This post is one of a multi-part blog series to introduce the core use cases and capabilities provided by Consul. You will learn about the benefits of the service mesh, whether you should adopt it for your projects and how you can apply it throughout this blog series.

HashiCorp Consul 1.4.1
HashiCorp Consul 1.4.1

Announcing the release of HashiCorp Consul 1.4.1. This is a minor release that includes a number of important bug fixes for Consul Connect and our newly released ACL system.

Protecting Consul from RCE Risk in Specific Configurations
Protecting Consul from RCE Risk in Specific Configurations

We’ve recently become aware of a set of malware targeting Consul nodes with a specific configuration which allows remote code execution. Members of our community also (responsibly) reported incidents caused by this malware, and worked with us to include a patch in a recent version of Consul that protects from this threat in the wild.

Consul 1.4: Multi-Data Center Service Mesh
Consul 1.4: Multi-Data Center Service Mesh

We are excited to announce the general availability of HashiCorp Consul 1.4. This release introduces a completely redesigned ACL system and Consul Connect feature with multi-data center support. Consul is a distributed service mesh to connect, secure, and configure services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud.