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

HashiCorp Consul 1.14 introduces the Consul dataplane, service mesh traffic management across cluster peers, and service failover enhancements. 

Consul 1.14 GA: Announcing Simplified Service Mesh Deployments

Our tests show Consul servers remain healthy under all test configurations and that splitting up a large LAN gossip pool cuts the risk of gossip instability.

Consul Scale Test Report to Observe Gossip Stability

The new global management plane for Consul is now available as a free public beta. Try it out to gain full visibility for both self-managed and HCP Consul clusters.

New HCP-Based Global Management Plane for Consul Now in Public Beta

Before we ring in the new year, here’s a look back at some of the most important moments in 2022 for HashiCorp.

HashiCorp 2022 Year in Review

Read our recap of HashiCorp security and networking news and developments on AWS from this past year.

re:Invent Roundup: HashiCorp Zero Trust Security and More with AWS

HashiCorp Consul support for AWS Lambda is now generally available, enabling services in the mesh to invoke Lambda serverless functions.

Consul Service Mesh Support for AWS Lambda Now Generally Available

Accelerate your adoption of a cloud operating model. Visit us at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, Nov. 28 - Dec. 2 for breakout sessions, expert talks, and product demos.

HashiCorp at AWS re:Invent: Examining the State of Your Cloud Operating Model

As next-generation 5G begins to take shape, learn about a suite of comprehensive, identity-based security solutions for microservice environments.

How Telcos Can Add Mutual TLS to 5G Packet Core with HashiCorp Vault

Check out the highlights from HashiConf Global 2022 and watch the 40+ keynote and session recordings now live on YouTube.

HashiConf Global 2022: From Zero Trust to No Code

HashiCorp Consul 1.14 enhances traffic management and failover, and adds a new deployment method: Consul dataplane. AWS Lambda updates and beta Windows VM support were also added.

Consul 1.14 Beta: Announcing Simplified Service Mesh Deployments

The HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) adds new visibility and management controls for self-managed and HCP-managed Consul deployments.

Introducing a New HCP-Based Management Plane for Consul

Visit our Minecraft world and learn how HashiCorp Vault, Consul, Nomad, and Boundary all work through fun analogies. Join us at HashiConf Global 2022 — in Los Angeles or online Oct. 4-6.

HashiCorp Tools Explained Using a Minecraft World

The HashiCorp Consul ecosystem continues its growth with the addition of 15 new self-managed, enterprise, and HCP Consul integrations.

F5, New Relic, and Sophos Highlight New Consul Integrations

General availability of HashiCorp Consul-Terraform-Sync 0.7 represents a key step in the maturity of our Network Infrastructure Automation solution.

Consul-Terraform-Sync 0.7 Adds High Availability and Redundancy

A service mesh is a force multiplier that can do everything from service discovery to zero trust security, load balancing, multi-cloud connectivity, automation, and north-south traffic. 

What Can a Service Mesh Do?

HashiCorp Nomad’s addition of native service discovery offers a new option for simple service registration, plus integration with Consul for more complex service mesh use cases.

Nomad Service Discovery 

Consul API Gateway 0.4 introduces support for the new beta version of the Kubernetes Gateway API and HTTP path rewrites.

Consul API Gateway 0.4 Is Now Generally Available

This release enhances a number of features in Consul while adding such new features as a Consul on Kubernetes CNI plugin and a beta version of cluster peering.

Consul 1.13 Introduces Cluster Peering

A service mesh like HashiCorp Consul can be an essential part of applying zero trust security principles to modern, complex, Kubernetes deployments.

Zero Trust Security for Kubernetes with a Service Mesh 

HashiCorp Consul has evolved into a comprehensive networking platform that bolsters zero trust networking, works well with Kubernetes, and is remarkably easy to use.

3 Surprising Things Consul Service Mesh Can Do

In the journey toward a modern service-based networking solution, core workflows are needed for discovering services, securing service communications, automating networking tasks, and controlling access.

The Evolution of Service Networking

HCP Consul on Microsoft Azure is now generally available and capable of supporting production workloads running on Azure. Get started today with a secure, resilient service mesh for connecting applications running in Azure. 

HCP Consul on Azure is Now Generally Available

Synchronize HCP Consul services as backend address pools for Microsoft Azure Application Gateway using Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS).

Configuring Azure Application Gateway with Consul-Terraform-Sync

The latest version of HashiCorp Consul on Amazon ECS adds support for AWS IAM authentication and mesh gateways.

Consul on Amazon ECS 0.5 Supports AWS IAM and Mesh Gateways

HashiCorp Cloud Platform has added several new capabilities, including managed services for HashiCorp Boundary and Waypoint, and Drift Detection for Terraform Cloud.

New on HCP: Boundary, Waypoint, Drift Detection, and Azure Support

The latest release of the HashiCorp Consul API Gateway allows users to generate multiple instances of a logical gateway — avoiding single points of failure.

Consul API Gateway 0.3 Introduces HA Logical Gateways

Cluster peering in Consul 1.13 offers a whole new model of how Consul handles cross-cluster federation.

Consul 1.13 Tech Preview: Cluster Peering

HCP Consul is becoming generally available on Azure, Consul API Gateway version 0.3 is going GA, and Consul 1.13 is due later this year.

HCP Consul on Azure to go GA, Plus More Consul News

HashiCorp Consul support for AWS Lambda is now available in public beta enabling services in the mesh to invoke AWS Lambda functions.

Consul Service Mesh Support for AWS Lambda Now in Public Beta

We’re at Cisco Live, June 12-16. Find out more details in our pre-event blog. 

HashiCorp at Cisco Live: Demos, Presentations, Experts, and More

 General availability of HashiCorp Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS) 0.6 represents a key step in the maturity of our Network Infrastructure Automation (NIA) solution. 

CTS 0.6 Adds New Terraform Cloud Agent and HCP Consul Support  

The HashiCorp Releases API is now available. This API is your one-stop shop for finding and viewing extended metadata about HashiCorp product releases.

Announcing the HashiCorp Releases API

Add OpenTelemetry to your Java or .NET applications on Kubernetes and combine them with Consul service mesh metrics and traces for use with Prometheus and Jaeger.

Improve Observability with OpenTelemetry and Consul Service Mesh

Consul API Gateway 0.2, now generally available, enhances the gateway’s traffic management capabilities by adding cross-namespace reference policy enforcement. 

Consul API Gateway 0.2 Brings New Cross-Namespace Controls

This release strengthens zero trust security architecture by leveraging HashiCorp Vault to reduce secrets sprawl and automate server TLS certificate rotation.

Consul 1.12 Hardens Security on Kubernetes with Vault

The HashiCorp Consul ecosystem has experienced rapid growth in the past six months, recording a total of 10 new integrations.

Cisco, Datadog, Fortinet, VMware & Others Add Consul Integrations

The latest version of HashiCorp Consul on Amazon ECS adds support for multi-tenancy with administrative partitions and namespaces.

Consul on Amazon ECS 0.4 Now Supports Multi-Tenancy

Learn more about how HashiCorp Consul can help improve application resiliency, and how to test whether it’s working with chaos engineering.

Consul and Chaos Engineering

There were many popular Kubernetes sessions at this year’s HashiTalks. Watch the highlights from the virtual conference here.

Kubernetes Video Highlights from HashiTalks 2022

See how Consul can help you achieve the right DevOps workflow whether you’re a developer or an operator.

For Developers and Operators, All Paths Lead to Consul

Observability, Consul-Terraform-Sync use cases, and deep-level Nomad explorations were popular at this year’s HashiTalks. Watch our highlighted videos from the virtual event.

Observability, CTS & Nomad Video Highlights from HashiTalks 2022

HashiCorp Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS) 0.5 adds improvements to task lifecycle management and new ecosystem integrations. 

Consul-Terraform-Sync 0.5 Adds New APIs and UX Improvements

The Consul API Gateway has now reached its first GA release, adding TCPRoute support, Helm chart support, and a new HashiCorp Learn tutorial.

Consul API Gateway Now Generally Available

Learn how  Consul-Terraform-Sync can be used to auto-update values of objects in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC).

Network Security Automation using Cisco Secure Firewall and HashiCorp Consul

Using multiple dedicated service meshes can pose resource-inefficiency challenges — learn how HashiCorp Consul’s new Administrative Partitions can help solve them.

Achieving Multi-Tenancy with Consul Administrative Partitions

The latest version of HashiCorp Consul on Amazon ECS adds extended configuration to support more deployment scenarios along with several other new features.

Consul on Amazon ECS 0.3 Adds Extended Configuration

HCP Consul users can now auto-generate ready-to-apply Terraform configurations to deploy HCP Consul end-to-end with a demo application in less than 20 minutes.

HCP Consul UI Now Supports End-to-End Deployment with Terraform

HashiCorp has renewed its SOC II Type II report for HCP Vault and HCP Consul, and obtained ISO 27017 and ISO 27018 certificates for its cloud products. 

HashiCorp’s Security and Compliance Program Takes Another Step Forward

HashiCorp Cloud Platform added new locations in the Asia-Pacific region, multi-factor authentication, and support for additional configurations of HashiCorp Consul and HashiCorp Vault.

HashiCorp Cloud Platform Adds New Asia Regions, MFA, and More

HashiCorp Consul 1.11 adds important new features: multi-tenancy with administrative partitions, new installation-and-management Consul Kubernetes CLI, and Vault integration on Consul Kubernetes.

Announcing HashiCorp Consul 1.11 - Now Generally Available

Visit us at AWS re:Invent 2021 in Las Vegas, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3 for breakout sessions, expert talks, and product demos to accelerate your cloud strategy.

HashiCorp at AWS re:Invent: Breakouts, Experts, Demos, and More

HashiCorp Consul service mesh on Amazon ECS is now generally available and ready for production environments.

Consul Service Mesh on Amazon ECS Now Generally Available

A recap of key announcements and presentations from HashiConf Global 2021 — focused on the needs and interests of enterprises.

Highlights From HashiConf Global 2021 for Enterprises

New quickstart video demos walk you through our new Terraform module for Amazon EKS and EC2, and show how to test managing Consul features on Amazon ECS.

HCP Consul Updates: New Terraform Module for EKS and EC2, and an ECS Learn Guide

Watch the keynotes and some of the most informative sessions for practitioners from HashiConf Global 2021.

HashiConf Global 2021 Delivers Deep Learning for Practitioners

The new Consul API Gateway is a dedicated ingress solution for intelligently routing traffic to applications running on the HashiCorp Consul service mesh.

Introducing the Consul API Gateway

Compliance-driven network infrastructure automation with Consul-Terraform-Sync 0.4 is now generally available for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud.

Announcing Consul-Terraform-Sync 0.4 for Terraform Cloud

Read this curated list of HashiCorp learning resources to help practitioners and organizations better understand the cloud operating model.

HashiCorp Learning Resources Reference Guide

Get a list of the 10 most interesting HashiConf Global sessions for enterprise cloud platform teams. Join us October 19 - 20, 2021.

HashiConf Global Preview: Sessions for Cloud Platform Teams

HashiCorp Consul now provides a reliable and secure service mesh on Amazon ECS.

Announcing the Beta Release of Consul Service Mesh for Amazon ECS

Auto-Config is a highly scalable method to distribute secure properties and other configuration settings to all Consul agents in a datacenter.

Automate Consul Agent Security with Auto-Config

From maturity to security, take a closer look at the networking and service mesh trends uncovered in the new HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey. 

How Organizations Are Thinking About Multi-Cloud Networking

Compliance-driven network infrastructure automation with Consul-Terraform-Sync 0.3 is now generally available for HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise.

Announcing Consul-Terraform-Sync 0.3 for Terraform Enterprise 

HashiCorp Consul and Nomad use Azure managed identities  to authenticate against Azure in order to read tags and manage service principal information.

Azure Managed Identities with the HashiCorp Stack: Part 3

Spend more time improving observability rather than maintaining infrastructure with HCP Consul and Datadog.

Application Observability with HCP Consul and Datadog

HCP Consul Plus allows users to federate Consul clusters across multiple regions for improved redundancy and resiliency of applications.

Announcing HCP Consul Plus

Get helpful resources on a recent change to product license deployments and learn how to navigate this change.

Navigating the New HashiCorp Enterprise License Deployment Process

Configure Kong Ingress Controller for Kubernetes with transparent proxy on HashiCorp Consul service mesh to manage traffic to and between your Kubernetes services.

Using HashiCorp Consul with Kong Ingress Controller for Kubernetes

See how content moderation service Chatsight uses HashiCorp Nomad and Consul to speed deployment and maximize uptime.

Building an Event-Based HA Architecture with Nomad and Consul

Here’s how to keep track of your Apache Camel services running throughout a deployment, and enable them to communicate with one another in a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environment. 

Herding (Apache) Camels with HashiCorp Consul

Consul 1.10 can transparently intercept and redirect traffic to sidecar proxies in the service mesh to allow applications to be deployed without modification.

Transparent Proxy on Consul Service Mesh 

HashiConf Europe speakers from Starbucks and Roblox share how they leverage HashiCorp Vault, Consul, and Boundary to create a zero trust security model.

5 Zero Trust Security Takeaways From HashiConf Europe

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 GA

CTS 0.2 includes Task Run Conditions, Terraform 0.15 Support, and more.

Announcing General Availability of Consul-Terraform-Sync 0.2

Watch all 30+ videos HashiConf Europe 2021 with these on-demand videos of all the keynotes, sessions, and customer presentations.

HashiConf Europe 2021 Recap and Videos

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. 

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