Consul grows with your evolving needs
Enhance service discovery, security, and reliability
Whether you're building from scratch or gradually integrating service networking into your existing infrastructure, Consul effortlessly scales to meet evolving infrastructure needs.
Adopt service discovery and secure networking workflows
Simplify application connectivity and strengthen security with Consul.
- Discover and trackRegister global services in the Consul catalog so you can discover and monitor services across any cloud or runtime.
- Secure services onboardingUse permissive mTLS to gradually migrate services into a service mesh without disruption.
- AuthN, encrypt, and AuthZSecure authentication and encryption with mTLS. Authorize traffic based on service names using granular controls and policies.
- Integrate with DNS global catalog of servicesUse Consul to query nodes and services via DNS and HTTP API.
- Services health and visibilityMonitor IP addresses for each service as they change, directly from Consul’s UI.
Standardize best practices across your organization
Provide shared services, integrated tools, traffic policies, and governance.
- Connect and route trafficShape, split, and route traffic for blue-green deployments, canary testing, load balancing, application migration, and more. Route both for east-west and north-south traffic.
- Route traffic across datacentersConnect services between multiple clusters or implement high availability with cluster peering.
- Admin partitionsReduce datacenter management at scale with multi-tenancy and autonomy between teams.
- App infrastructure integrationsIntegrate with application monitoring tools like DataDog, Grafana, and Prometheus for comprehensive service visibility.
- Integrations with operations toolsEnable audit logging to Splunk and single sign-on (SSO) with Okta and other OpenID Connect (OIDC) providers for enhanced security and visibility.
Scale operations by automating key networking tasks
Provision apps faster and help operators easily manage and optimize networking.
- Service-based automationReduce manual ticketing for network infrastructure devices using Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS) and Terraform provider ecosystem.
- Envoy extensionsSimplify configuration management by extending Consul-generated Envoy resources without modifying the Consul binary. Built-in extensions include Lua, WASM, and external AuthZ.
Integrate with your existing workflows
Common use cases for Consul
- Consul on KubernetesOrganizations adopting Kubernetes want to observe, secure, and automate the connections between pods and clusters. Consul on Kubernetes provides a scalable and highly resilient platform for microservices. Consul supports any Kubernetes runtime, including hosted solutions like EKS, AKS, GKE, and OpenShift.
- Discover services with ConsulConsul acts as a centralized registry that discovers, tracks, and monitors your services regardless of the underlying runtimes, platform, or infrastructure. Consul can be your single source of truth for cataloging and maintaining a record of all your services across multiple disparate teams.
- Zero trust networkingA core component of HashiCorp’s zero trust security solution, Consul uses identity-based access to automatically deny service-to-service communication unless authorized explicitly on an as-needed basis. All authorized communication within the service mesh is mutually authenticated.
Get started with Consul
Consul simplifies cloud security automation on fully managed infrastructure.