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November 19, 2019

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

Erlon Sousa Pinheiro | TrustRadius Reviewer
Erlon Sousa Pinheiro
Score 8 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.
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August 08, 2019

Using Consul For Multiple Things Cross Organization

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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
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January 18, 2018

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

Eric Krueger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Eric Krueger
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.
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February 15, 2017

Simple Hands on Service Discovery

Claudio Fernando Maciel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Claudio Fernando Maciel
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.
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Consul Scorecard Summary

Likelihood to Recommend (16)
8.5
Usability (1)
10.0
Support Rating (4)
8.1

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.
Categories:  SOA Governance,  Configuration Management

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