Service Discovery and Health Checking

Discover, Register and Resolve services for application workloads across any cloud. Automatically add and remove services based on health checking.

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Features

Centralized Service Registry

Consul enables services to discover each other by storing location information (like IP addresses) in a single registry.

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Real time Health Monitoring

Improve application resiliency by using Consul health checks to track the health of deployed services.

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Open and Extensible API

Consul’s API allows users to integrate ecosystem technologies into their environments and enable service discovery at greater scale.

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$ dig @127.0.0.1 -p 8600 web.service.consul

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> @127.0.0.1 -p 8600 web.service.consul SRV
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56598
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 3
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;web.service.consul. IN SRV

;; ANSWER SECTION:
web.service.consul. 0 IN SRV 1 1 80 Judiths-MBP.lan.node.dc1.consul.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
Judiths-MBP.lan.node.dc1.consul. 0 IN A   127.0.0.1
Judiths-MBP.lan.node.dc1.consul. 0 IN TXT "consul-network-segment="

;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#8600(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Jul 16 14:31:13 PDT 2019
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 150

$ dig @127.0.0.1 -p 8600 web.service.consul ; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> @127.0.0.1 -p 8600 web.service.consul SRV; (1 server found);; global options: +cmd;; Got answer:;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56598;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 3;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096;; QUESTION SECTION:;web.service.consul. IN SRV ;; ANSWER SECTION:web.service.consul. 0 IN SRV 1 1 80 Judiths-MBP.lan.node.dc1.consul. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:Judiths-MBP.lan.node.dc1.consul. 0 IN A   127.0.0.1Judiths-MBP.lan.node.dc1.consul. 0 IN TXT "consul-network-segment=" ;; Query time: 2 msec;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#8600(127.0.0.1);; WHEN: Tue Jul 16 14:31:13 PDT 2019;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 150

Simplified Resource Discovery

Leverage DNS or HTTP interface to discover services and their locations registered with Consul.

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Multi-Region, Multi-Cloud

Consul’s distributed architecture allows it to be deployed at scale in any environment, in any region, on any cloud.

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Built for Enterprise Scale

Consul Enterprise provides the foundation for organizations to build a strong service networking platform at scale, with resiliency.

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When to consider Consul Enterprise

Open Source

Technical Complexity

Consul Open Source enables individuals to discover services and securely manage connections between them across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.

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Enterprise

Organizational Complexity

Consul Enterprise provides the foundation for organizations to build an enterprise-ready service networking environment for multiple teams by enabling governance capabilities.

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Consul Open Source addresses the technical complexity of managing production services by providing a way to discover, automate, secure and connect applications and networking configurations across distributed infrastructure and clouds.

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