Consul is a service networking platform developed by

HashiCorp HashiCorp, Inc. is an American software company with a freemium business model based in San Francisco, California. HashiCorp provides tools and products that enable developers, operators and security professionals to provision, secure, run and co ...

. Consul was initially released in 2014 as a service discovery platform. In addition to service discovery, it now provides a full-featured

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for secure service segmentation across any

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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. HashiCorp announced on August 10, 2023, that it changed the license of its software from the MPL license to the Business Source License 1.1.

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GitHub - hashicorp/consul
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