Consul is a platform to discover, automate, and secure service networking across any cloud or runtime.

Consul 1.10 adds exciting new features such as transparent proxy for service mesh, support for xDS v3, streaming, and observability enhancements.

Announcing Consul 1.10 Beta

We asked users how they are using HashiCorp Consul, here’s what they told us.

Survey Results:  How Do You Connect with Consul?

Get a walkthrough of the code and workflow for setting up NIA with Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS) and A10 ADC.

How to Build Network Infrastructure Automation (NIA) with HashiCorp Terraform, Consul, and A10 ADC

 The HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) now has expanded capabilities for networking, single sign-on, and more. HCP will also support new configurations of HashiCorp Consul and HashiCorp Vault in the coming months.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform Adds Transit Gateway, Okta Support, New Packages

AWS users may now select Consul as their service mesh for ECS deployments.

Announcing Tech Preview of Consul Service Mesh for Amazon ECS

HashiConf Europe 2021 is coming June 8-11. Here are some of the highlights that you don’t want to miss, from customer stories to product deep-dives. 

The HashiConf Europe Highlights You Don’t Want to Miss

Deploy, test, and explore various Consul use cases in record time with Docker Compose.

Explore HashiCorp Consul with Docker Compose

Learn about our plans for this year’s KubeCon Europe virtual conference and get CNCF- and Kubernetes-related updates on our products.

A Guide to HashiCorp at KubeCon Europe Virtual 2021

Want to earn some HashiCorp swag? Tell us about your Consul setup.

User Survey: How Do You Connect with Consul?

Automate a canary analysis and deployment with Spinnaker, Prometheus, and HashiCorp Consul service mesh on Kubernetes.

Automated Canary Deployment with HashiCorp Consul and Spinnaker

HashiCorp Consul updates 10,000 nodes and 172,000+ services in under 1 second in a new benchmark.

HashiCorp Consul Global Scale Benchmark

The answers to these questions from our HCP Consul early adopters might help you. 

Getting Started with  HCP Consul: Frequently Asked Questions

Gain a deeper understanding of HashiCorp tools and products with 90-minute hands-on workshops at HashiConf Europe: Thursday and Friday, June 10 and 11, 2021.

HashiConf Europe Workshops: Key Takeaways and How to Book 

HashiCorp Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS) is now generally available. CTS enables operations to achieve Network Infrastructure Automation leveraging Terraform’s robust provider ecosystem.

Consul-Terraform-Sync Now Generally Available

Watch these highlighted talks from our 2021 HashiTalks community event. This recap features talks on HashiCorp Nomad and Consul.

HashiTalks 2021 Highlights: Nomad and Consul

HCP Consul now offers an hourly, production-ready self-service option for customers.

Announcing Self-Service Production Clusters for HCP Consul

HashiCorp Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS) is now in beta. CTS enables operations to achieve Network Infrastructure Automation leveraging Terraform’s robust provider ecosystem.

Consul-Terraform-Sync Beta Release Now Available

Read our recap of the recent updates to HCS on Azure and the latest integrations between Azure services and HashiCorp Consul, Terraform, and Vault.

HashiCorp Highlights for Microsoft Ignite

See the recovery steps to protect your data and secrets during an extended outage using Kubernetes and HashiCorp Consul. 

Disaster Recovery for HashiCorp Consul on Kubernetes

This new tutorial collection uses a case study about a fictional company to illustrate a  monolith to microservices migration with HashiCorp Consul and Kubernetes.

New Learn Tutorials: Migrating to Microservices with Consul on Kubernetes

HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) Consul is moving into general availability. In this blog, we’ll show users how they can get started consuming Consul as a managed offering in AWS. 

First Steps with HCP Consul on AWS

HCP Consul is now generally available on AWS. HCP Consul is a fully managed service mesh to discover and securely connect any service.

Announcing HCP Consul General Availability

Kubernetes Initializer built by Ambassador Labs provides a new experience for simplifying the deployment of Ambassador and Consul in a Sandbox Kubernetes environment. 

Getting Started with Ambassador and Consul Using Kubernetes Initializer

Follow along with our new education engineer as he dives into HashiCorp Consul for the first time.

A Consul Learning Journey

HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure now offers federation between HCS datacenters as a preview feature.

Introducing Federation on HashiCorp Consul Service

Building on our security foundation, HashiCorp has obtained our first SOC II Type II report and ISO 27001 certificate for many of our enterprise products. 

HashiCorp Compliance Program Updates 

Learn how to secure your Consul agents and access to data with Vault integrations. We also have new Consul 1.9 tutorials.

New Learn Tutorials: Secure Consul with Vault's Secret Engines

This blog is a summary of HashiCorp activities at AWS re:Invent 2020. 

HashiCorp at AWS re:Invent 2020

Announcing General Availability of HashiCorp Consul 1.9

We will be organizing a HashiCraft Holidays Hackstravaganza where you and your fellow tinkerers can use your creativity to showcase one or more of our products in creative and unexpected ways.

Announcing the HashiCraft Holidays Hackstravaganza

Learn how to apply distributed tracing by instrumenting it in your code directly or leveraging the observability hooks of Consul Service Mesh. Both examples use Datadog.

Leveling up Your Service Mesh with Observability and Distributed Tracing for Consul

Consul 1.9 now provides OpenShift support for Kubernetes deployments with a secure-by-default configuration.

Introducing OpenShift Support for HashiCorp Consul on Kubernetes 

Consul 1.9 adds Custom Resource Definition support, allowing users to interact with Consul using a more Kubernetes-native experience.

Custom Resource Definitions for HashiCorp Consul on Kubernetes 

In this blog, we round-up all of the KubeCon related activities HashiCorp will be doing this week at the virtual conference and adjacent to it. 

HashiCorp and KubeCon North America Virtual

In preparation for KubeCon 2020, this blog explores how features in Consul 1.9 help enhance the experience of running Consul on Kubernetes. 

KubeCon 2020: HashiCorp Consul Further Expands Kubernetes Support

Consul 1.9 introduces new service mesh visualization tools that help users troubleshoot their mesh and view key metrics.

Service Mesh Visualization in HashiCorp Consul 1.9

The HashiCorp Cloud Platform and its Consul service are now available for all to try in public beta.

Announcing HCP Consul Public Beta

Consul 1.9 adds more service mesh features including app-aware intentions, visualization enhancements, and custom resource definitions.

Announcing HashiCorp Consul 1.9

We are pleased to introduce Consul-Terraform-Sync: a new tool for automating network infrastructure, powered by our robust Terraform provider ecosystem.

Announcing Consul-Terraform-Sync Tech Preview

We're expanding the HashiCorp Cloud Engineering Certification program with a new Consul Associate certification.

Announcing the Consul Associate Cloud Engineering Certification for Network Automation

This new feature allows Nomad to provide access to Consul services from outside the service mesh.

Introducing HashiCorp Nomad 0.12's New Consul Ingress Gateway Capability

HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure can be launched directly from the Azure Portal, but you can also manage HCS using Terraform Cloud. 

Managing HCS with Terraform Cloud

Get Terraform, Packer, Vault, Consul, and Nomad up and running even faster on macOS with our new official Homebrew Tap.

Announcing HashiCorp’s Homebrew Tap

We are pleased to announce the availability of the HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure Production tier. The new offering enables a user to deploy production grade Consul clusters directly from the Microsoft Azure portal.

Announcing HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure Production Tier

Learn about the advanced features of HashiCorp's Consul service mesh that are valuable to both infrastructure operators and developers.

HashiCorp Consul Ingress Gateways and L7 Traffic Management in Kubernetes

When multiple teams use Consul, it becomes difficult to correlate manually managed policies with the identity accessing it. In this blog, we'll show you an automated method to ensure least-privilege access to Consul using Terraform and Vault. 

Managing HashiCorp Consul Access Control Lists (ACLs) with Terraform & Vault

As more organizations make the shift from monolithic infrastructure to microservice-based architectures, there remain some applications which cannot be added to a service mesh, either because of technology or regulatory constraints (e.g. managed database services). However, services running inside the mesh require a secure and intelligent way to communicate with these external services. Consul and BIG-IP provide organizations an end-to-end solution to achieve this communication

F5 BIG-IP Terminating Gateway Egress with Consul 

Today, the Sentinel team is pleased to announce the release of the Sentinel Playground. We have built the Playground so that new and existing customers have access to a zero-install development environment. Now, practitioners can learn and experiment with policy as code in minutes without having to install and maintain runtime environments on their own machines.

Announcing the Sentinel Playground

Ample Organics, a global leader in tech infrastructure and services for the cannabis industry, shares how HashiCorp Nomad and Consul has helped them create an agnostic platform that makes it possible to ship 125 client deployments per day with zero downtime and 10% reduction in operating costs.

How HashiCorp Nomad Helps Relax Cannabis Compliance and Kubernetes Complexity

Consul has a set of features to support first-class integration with Kubernetes. In this new hands-on tutorial, learn how to secure Consul and registered services on Kubernetes using the official HashiCorp Consul Helm chart for Kubernetes.

 Secure Consul and Registered Services on Kubernetes

Here’s a closer look at the HashiConf talk that showed how Criteo uses Consul to manage networked services and bring more autonomy to service users.

How to Operate and Scale Infrastructure without Alienating Humans 

Learn from nearly 20 free, interactive, hands-on tutorials as presented at HashiConf Digital.

Learn From 20 Free Interactive Tutorials As Presented At HashiConf Digital

With the launch of Nomad 0.12, Nomad now supports running Consul Connect native tasks. In this blog, we explain how this integration works and provide examples on how to get started.

Consul Connect Native Tasks in HashiCorp Nomad 0.12

In this video, we demonstrate how HashiCorp Consul allows operators to quickly connect applications across multiple clouds (on-premises, Google Cloud, Amazon AWS) as well as multiple runtime environments (Virtual Machine, Kubernetes).

Making a Mesh in Multi-Cloud with Consul

A couple of years ago cloud bursting was all the rage, but it never delivered on its promise because of the inherent complexity that it comes with. But in this day and age, is cloud bursting still relevant? Let's see what Nomad and Consul can do to solve some of the problems it promised to.

Cloud Bursting with Nomad and Consul

Today we’re happy to announce HashiCorp’s official Linux repository, a source of Debian and RPM packages for HashiCorp products. These packages will provide Linux users with a better installation and upgrade experience.

Announcing the HashiCorp Linux Repository

We are pleased to announce that HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure is now generally available. HCS on Azure enables a team to provision HashiCorp-managed Consul clusters directly through the Microsoft Azure portal. HCS on Azure clusters are preconfigured for production workloads, enabling a team to easily leverage Consul to secure the application networks within their Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or VM-based environments while offloading the operations to HashiCorp.

Announcing HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure General Availability

Recently, we did a webinar on the importance of resiliency and recovery when using HashiCorp Consul enterprise for business critical applications. In this blog we re-cover some of those features and explain how we approach building a resilient networking platform and recover from outages.

Resiliency and Recovery with Consul Enterprise

Today we are pleased to announce the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP), a fully managed cloud offering to automate deployment of HashiCorp products on any cloud provider.

Our first HCP service — HCP Consul — is now in private beta with support for AWS. HCP Vault will follow next. Get early access here.

Announcing the HashiCorp Cloud Platform

In Consul 1.8, we introduced terminating gateways. These gateways can be leveraged to enable mesh-based services to securely communicate with services residing outside of the service mesh. Read this blog to learn more about this new feature.

Expanding Service Mesh with Terminating Gateways

The ingress gateway capability in Consul 1.8 provides operators a quick and easy ingress solution for external services to communicate with services inside the Consul service mesh and start transitioning services to it. This blog will provide a walkthrough that illustrates how Ingress Gateways work in practice.

Ingress Gateways in HashiCorp Consul 1.8

Learn how to deploy and use HashiCorp Consul service mesh capabilities on a local Kubernetes cluster with a new set of hands-on tutorials.

Get Started with Consul Service Mesh on Kubernetes

The release of HashiCorp Consul 1.8 introduces two new enterprise features: Single Sign-On (SSO) and Audit Logging.

Enterprise Compliance and Governance with HashiCorp Consul 1.8

We are pleased to announce the general availability of HashiCorp Consul 1.8. Consul is a multi-cloud service networking platform to connect and secure services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud.

Announcing HashiCorp Consul 1.8

In Consul 1.8, we introduced three new service mesh features ingress, terminating, and WAN federation via mesh gateways. In this blog, we're going to explain how WAN federation can be used to connect multiple Kubernetes clusters across various environments.

Connecting Kubernetes Clusters with HashiCorp Consul WAN Federation

We are pleased to release our first deep-dive white paper covering Consul service mesh entitled, “The Life of a Packet Through Consul Service Mesh”.

The Life of a Packet Through Consul Service Mesh

Learn how to migrate application workloads from VMs into Kubernetes by leveraging Consul and its L7 Traffic Management features. By establishing a common service mesh between both runtime platforms, we enable the ability to take a policy0driven approach to security and application communications.

Migrating Application Traffic between VMs and Kubernetes with HCS on Azure

We are pleased to announce that HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure is now in public beta. HCS on Azure enables a team to provision HashiCorp-managed Consul clusters directly through the Azure Marketplace and easily leverage Consul’s service discovery and service mesh features within their Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or VM-based application environments.

HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure Public Beta

In our previous blog we showed how to get started with deploying HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure and joining it to an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. In the video above, we show how we can take Virtual Machines hosted in Microsoft Azure and bring them into the same Consul service mesh that our AKS cluster joined previously. This configuration currently requires connectivity between the Consul client nodes in the AKS and the Virtual Machine networks.

Exploring HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure: Service Mesh with VM Workloads

The Terraform Consul provider exposes resources used to interact with Consul. In this guide, you will learn how to register two external services with a small Consul datacenter, and then configure the Terraform Consul provider to register the external services with health checks to Consul.

Use Terraform to Extend Consul Service Discovery

Are you a HashiCorp tools practitioner? Do you want to help shape the direction of HashiCorp Consul running in public cloud? HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure is now available!

Introduction to HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure with AKS

The Consul Education team has created new guides to help you better secure your network communications and narrow your access permissions. Each guide provides step-by-step instructions to help you better utilize these security features.

New Security Guides for Consul

In this post, we demonstrate how to manage application feature toggles (also known as feature flags) when using HashiCorp Consul and consul-template.

Application Feature Toggles with HashiCorp Consul

Today we are pleased to announce the re-launching of the HashiCorp Consul on AWS Quick Start Guide. AWS Quick Start guides are built by AWS solutions architects and partners to help users deploy technologies on AWS, based on AWS best practices for security and high availability. Read this blog to learn more about the guide and the new features that it now contains.

HashiCorp and AWS Re-Launch Consul Quick Start Guide

Learn how to secure and monitor Consul service registrations.

New Service Discovery and Service Mesh Guides for Consul

In this post, we will examine how to use distributed tracing and HashiCorp Consul's service mesh capabilities for observing requests to and between applications running .NET or .NET Core frameworks.

Tracing .NET Applications with HashiCorp Consul

Two reliable and popular proxies that support mTLS are NGINX and HAProxy. Each of them can be configured using consul-template to work as a native ingress proxy. This can be beneficial when performance is of utmost importance.

Proxy Ingress to Consul Service Mesh

We are excited to announce the Consul 1.7 release. This release includes a new enterprise feature called namespaces that simplifies organizational complexity for enterprises by enabling self-service, governance and operations across many user environments and services.

Simplifying Self-Service, Governance, and Operations With Consul Namespaces 

We're really excited to announce the availability of Consul 1.7.0. Consul is a multi-cloud service networking platform to connect and secure services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud.

Announcing HashiCorp Consul 1.7

This blog highlights some of the capabilities that HashiCorp Consul can bring to Kubernetes environments and some of the key integrations from our ecosystem that can be deployed in conjunction with Consul.

Exploring the HashiCorp Consul Ecosystem for Kubernetes

Learn how to create effective ACL policies to secure your Consul datacenter and how to troubleshoot the ACL system when an issue occurs.

Managing Consul's Access Control Lists

Distributed tracing is a capability offered by HashiCorp Consul Service Mesh that enables greater observability over microservice environment. Read this blog for an overview of tracing and

Enabling Distributed Tracing with HashiCorp Consul

Today, HashiCorp joined the  launching a new integration for the AppDynamic CNS Platform and HashiCorp Consul. Read this blog to learn more about the integration and what it means for our customers.

Announcing New HashiCorp Consul Integration for AppDynamics

In this post, we outline how we built Dance Dance Automation to demonstrate the use of HashiCorp Nomad, Terraform, and Consul and document some of the challenges along the way.

Demonstrating HashiCorp Tools with Dance Dance Automation

Consul now has documented load balancer integration examples for NGINX, HAProxy, and F5 on HashiCorp Learn. Get an overview of how each integration works.

Configuring Third-Party Load Balancers with Consul: NGINX, HAProxy, F5

We are excited to announce that we will be participating in Cloud Field Day 6 (#CFD6) on Sept. 25, starting at 11:30 a.m. PDT, with an hour-long session focused on HashiCorp Consul.

HashiCorp Consul at Cloud Field Day

This blog post presents an overview of service segmentation, and how to use features in Nomad to enable end-to-end mTLS between services through Consul Connect.

Consul Connect Integration in HashiCorp Nomad

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 Enterprise Supports VMware NSX Service Mesh Federation

We are pleased to announce the new HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure, which is now in private beta. HCS on Azure enables Microsoft Azure customers to natively provision HashiCorp-managed Consul clusters in any Azure region directly through the Azure Marketplace.

Announcing HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure

We are pleased to announce the availability of a beta release for HashiCorp Nomad 0.10. This release introduces advanced networking and storage features that enhance our support for stateful workloads and sidecar applications.

Announcing HashiCorp Nomad 0.10 Beta

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.

HashiCorp Consul 1.6 General Availability

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.

Canary deployments with Consul Service Mesh

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.

HashiCorp Consul 1.6: Dynamic Traffic Management and Gateways

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.

Consul UI Improvements

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.

Layer 7 Observability with Consul Service Mesh

Today at KubeCon EU in Barcelona, Microsoft introduced a new specification the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) for implementing service mesh providers into Kubernetes environments. This blog explains how Consul fits into this new specification and how it can be used for Kubernetes environments.

HashiCorp Consul supports Microsoft’s new Service Mesh Interface

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.

HashiCorp Consul 1.5

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.

Roadmap Preview: What’s Next for Consul Service Mesh

We’re excited to share some new resources on the learn platform: a Kubernetes getting started track, more guidance on configuring ACLs, and a streamlined troubleshooting guide.

Introducing New Consul Learn Resources: Kubernetes Track, ACLs, Ambassador, and Troubleshooting

Ambassador API Gateway announced native support for HashiCorp Consul service mesh. With this support, engineers can use Ambassador’s declarative configuration to expose any Consul service to the Internet. Together, Ambassador and Consul provide a complete solution for traffic management including both north-south and east-west traffic in today’s hybrid cloud, spanning Kubernetes, virtual machines (VMs), and bare metal infrastructure.