Consul

Consul is a comprehensive service networking solution designed to help teams manage secure network connectivity for their services. It operates across various environments, including on-premise, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud setups, supporting diverse runtimes. The platform offers essential features such as service discovery, service mesh capabilities, identity-based authorization, L7 traffic management, and secure service-to-service encryption. Consul provides a control plane for registering, accessing, and securing services, and can deploy gateways and sidecar proxies in the data plane to manage application traffic. It ensures a consistent state using the Raft protocol and manages membership across datacenters with the Serf protocol. Consul is available in both Community and Enterprise editions, offering tools like a CLI, HTTP API, and UI for interaction, and integrates with Terraform for configuration management. It's ideal for organizations looking to streamline service connectivity, enhance security, and automate network operations in complex distributed systems.