Consul

Consul

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Consul, by HashiCorp

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Open Source (self-managed)

$0

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Cloud (managed Consul)

starting at $.027

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  • No setup fee
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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting / Integration Services

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  • $0.03 per month

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Product Details

What is Consul?

HashiCorp Consul is a platform to discover, automate and secure service networking across any cloud or runtime. It enables users to discover, Register and Resolve services for application workloads across any cloud. Automatically add and remove services based on health checking.

Consul also provides network infrastructure automation, to reduce the time to deploy applications and eliminate manual processes by automating complex networking tasks. It enables operators to deploy, manage and optimize network infrastructure.

A multi-platform service mesh, it creates a consistent platform for modern application networking and security with identity based authorization, L7 traffic management, and service-to-service encryption.

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What is Consul?

HashiCorp Consul is a tool for discovering and configuring services in the IT infrastructure. It provides service discovery, health checking, key/value stores and support for multiple data centers out of the box.

How much does Consul cost?

Consul starts at $0.027.

What is Consul's best feature?

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.8.

Who uses Consul?

The most common users of Consul are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees) and the Computer Software industry.

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October 07, 2021

Consul is here to save your configuration management, service names and many more!

Borislav Traykov | TrustRadius Reviewer
Borislav Traykov
DevOps Team Leader
Cognyte (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
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Pros and Cons

  • Providing a service DNS
  • Being a fast, stable and reliable service - a cluster of minimum 3 nodes by default
  • Being a robust key-value store
  • Easy to install and configure
  • Extremely lightweight
  • Slick and really useful web UI
  • Good official documentation
  • Error logs - some of the errors require Googling as you have no idea what they mean
  • Misconfiguration is painful - strange errors can occur if you make even a tiny mistake
May 31, 2021

Build a strong layer to handle your configuration data with HashiCorp Consul.

Erlon Sousa Pinheiro | TrustRadius Reviewer
Erlon Sousa Pinheiro
Senior Devops Engineer
SOTI (Computer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
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Pros and Cons

  • Key-Value database management.
  • Service discovery.
  • Centralized configuration database with native high availability.
  • Consul should have cryptography built in. Depending on other solutions for that doesn't look smart in my opinion.
  • Its Frontend has space for improvements.
  • Documentation also is a little poor.
August 08, 2019

Using Consul For Multiple Things Cross Organization

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
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Pros and Cons

  • Service Health: Using Consul for service health/discovery has been critical to our success in a hybrid environment
  • K/V Store: The Consul K/V store is the best solution out there for our particular use case, which is as a locking mechanism to coordinate otherwise random runs of our configuration management system. This has allowed us to have peace of mind of system availability in our on-prem infrastructure.
  • API: The Consul API as a whole is excellent and extremely easy to work with
  • Documentation: Hashicorp really does documentation well. Their examples are easy to follow and everything is written in a manner that is easy to understand for beginners with the tool.
  • The GUI: The GUI interface for Consul has gotten a lot better over the years. Since Consul is so easy to interact with via API, this isn't a showstopper, but for those that are less command line inclined it's always nice to be able to refer them to an easy to use and understand web interface
  • It's chatty: Consul is extremely chatty. Sometimes it's particularly chatty at 2am with no indication as to why and eats up quite a bit of resources. Just be sure to provision your systems that typically take a heavy load with a little extra for Consul
January 18, 2018

Easy to use and the ROI will make you a rock star!

Eric Krueger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Eric Krueger
Operations/Systems Manager
Crowell Systems (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
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Pros and Cons

  • Consul makes keeping our DNS up to date very simple and easy.
  • Configuration changes are a snap when Consul is involved.
  • All of our services register easy and we sleep better knowing Consul is on the job.
  • We would like to see more out of the box training for Consul use.
  • Best practice examples would be nice for routing.
  • The agent could be easier to run.
February 15, 2017

Simple Hands on Service Discovery

Claudio Fernando Maciel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Claudio Fernando Maciel
Sr. Software Developer
CONSLOG - Construction Software (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
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Pros and Cons

  • Quick, hands-on solution to integrate with Docker containers via Docker-machine in a Docker Swarm flavour
  • Automatic provisioning of the mapped services via a dynamic API. One cannot beat that!
  • Free Health Checking means by which we can assert whether a certain service is up and running or not.
  • When it gracefully dies, it dies too gracefully. Way to graceful to find in a simple way what was wrong.
  • Working with the ACLs could be a little simpler.
  • I didn't find a native way of configuring it as a circuit breaker. Perhaps that could be an item to be improved in the future.