Consul is a
free and open-source
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service networking platform developed by
HashiCorp
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.
Overview
Consul was initially released in 2014 as a
service discovery
Service discovery is the process of automatically detecting devices and services on a computer network. This reduces the need for manual configuration by users and administrators. A service discovery protocol (SDP) is a network protocol that hel ...
platform. In addition to service discovery, it now provides a full-featured
service mesh
In software architecture, a service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for facilitating service-to-service communications between services or microservices, using a proxy.
A dedicated communication layer can provide a number of benefits, s ...
for secure service segmentation across any
cloud
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or
runtime environment
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, and distributed
key-value storage for application configuration.
Registered services and nodes can be queried using a DNS interface or an HTTP interface.
[ Envoy proxy provides security, observability, and resilience for all application traffic.
]
See also
* Envoy (software)
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is a Linux Foundation project that was founded in 2015 to help advance container technology and align the tech industry around its evolution.
It was announced alongside Kubernetes 1.0, an open sourc ...
* Open Service Mesh
Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a free and open source cloud native service mesh developed by Microsoft that runs on Kubernetes.
Overview
OSM is written in the Go programming language and designed to be a reference implementation of the ''Service Mes ...
References
External links
*
GitHub - hashicorp/consul
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