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HashiCorp Consul Reviews & Product Details

HashiCorp Consul is a service networking solution that enables teams to manage secure network connectivity between services and across multi-cloud environments and runtimes. Consul offers service discovery, identity-based authorization, L7 traffic management, and service-to-service encryption. Consul offers a fully-featured service mesh solution that solves the networking and security challenges of operating microservices and cloud infrastructure (multi-cloud and hybrid cloud).

Seller

Hashicorp

Discussions

HashiCorp Consul Community

Languages Supported

English

Product Description

Consul makes it simple for services to register themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface.

Overview by

Kevin Chen

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HashiCorp Consul Media

HashiCorp Consul Demo - Registering_Dependent_Service_ConsulConnect.png

Registering a service "web" that registers "socat" as an upstream dependency in its sidecar registration. To learn more: https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/getting-started/connect

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Using the DNS API to retrieve the entire address/port pair as a SRV record. To learn more: https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/getting-started/services

HashiCorp Consul Demo - Running_Consul_Agent.png

Starting Consul Agent in dev mode after Consul is installed. To learn more: https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/getting-started/agent

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To use an existing Consul cluster to manage services in Kubernetes, Consul clients can be deployed within the Kubernetes cluster. To learn more: https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/kubernetes/kubernetes/kubernetes-reference

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Deepak C.

Senior Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/16/2021

"Consul: Best in class service discovery"

4.5/5

What do you like best about HashiCorp Consul?

Hasicorp does everything right in terms of SaaS products, and consul is also on the same path. This is one of the best, if not the best service discovery tool out there. The main benefit of consul is that, it can be used in polyglot architecture as well which is not bound to any specific language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

Although consul is best for polyglot architecture, but it's SDK for java is a little hard to understand, also auto discovery is not as good as Eureka. UI could have been a little better for consul Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Consul solving and how is that benefiting you?

Well, in microservices architecture we all have to use some kind of service discovery so that load balancing can happen. In our project we are serving multimillion traffic through this consul. It's UI should have been a little better. But seeing the polyglot support nullifies the UI downside Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/18/2022

"Using consul as part of container service"

5/5

What do you like best about HashiCorp Consul?

I admire that Consul is relatively easy to operate. It is compliant with cloud-native standards which helps to integrate it. The best is that it can be seamlessly used with other Hashicorp stacks like Nomad and Vault. The essential documentation and tutorials are for all Hashicorp products sufficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

I miss the documentation for fine-tuning and guidelines with troubleshooting scenarios. The REST API's of the consul are sometimes a bit inconsistent. I would like to see more docs/blogs regarding operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Donatas F.

IT Systems Engineer

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/3/2019

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Yet easiest service i know"

5/5

What do you like best about HashiCorp Consul?

Just from the start i noticed it is a small in size, but massive in capabilities application. Simple deployment allows to save tons of time, ease management saves daily costs of configuration and management. When it comes to upgrades or updates - It is always just a few steps which are clearly written in upgrade paths. Practical, detailed and useful knowledge base with simple examples pointing right to the problem resolution. New features are just mind-blowing and straightforward, allows to solve more and more daily problems Additionally i am happy to notice plenty of users around the world who are sharing their experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

nothing to mention in particular. Major changes might seem very harsh before upgrade, but in the end it is just few additional steps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering HashiCorp Consul:

Do not consider, just try and it will make life easier not only for yourself as it, but others in company as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Consul solving and how is that benefiting you?

Load balancing, GEO balancing, ,fail-over, DNS, service discovery, and especially makes life easier when it comes to maintenance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Games

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/17/2020

"great tool better than zookeeper"

5/5

What do you like best about HashiCorp Consul?

its cluster system way how it worked and worked evenly if one main node turned off Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

some time documentation on the website are not sufficient when cluster goes offf Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/2/2019

"Consul for centralized configuration management tool"

3/5

What do you like best about HashiCorp Consul?

I love the use of gossip protocol in a data center and watches and handlers feature in consul. Also I appreciate the UI to be so extensive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

Not yet a wide community that uses consul. So the support remains in a small circle. Moreover I would like to have more integration of consul with CICD tools like jenkins, etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Consul solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am solving the problem of centralization configuration management in my organization. Right now we do not have any solution for centrally maintaining configurations for a application distributed on multiple cloud providers and on premise. We are right now doing a POC to explore all features on consul. We are also using it as a backend for Hashicorp Vault Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sachin A.

Administrator

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/11/2019

"Consul is best service discovery tool which helps in designing HA infra"

4/5

What do you like best about HashiCorp Consul?

Consul helps us in defining the infra with HA and fault tolerance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

third party integrations should be readily available to databases and other open source cloud native tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/3/2019

"Bringing Consul to Large Financial Enterprise"

4.5/5

What do you like best about HashiCorp Consul?

Simplicity of implementing service health and mesh across an entire organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

Initially we had some challenges getting the documentation we needed to train employees to use consul Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering HashiCorp Consul:

After putting in the upfront work, we saved thousands of hours in potential issues down the line and our executive sponsor is THRILLED by what we did. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is HashiCorp Consul solving and how is that benefiting you?

We solved the problem of securing services across the entire organization. It was extremely helpful to know which services were interacting with each other and being proactive instead of retroactive when we run into issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/2/2019

"Service Management Made Better"

4.5/5

What do you like best about HashiCorp Consul?

Consul Integration with other Tools, Services and Solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

Security Features, not really dislike but having a hard time to figure out when enabling with integrations but its awesome Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aman M.

Devops

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/11/2019

"best service discovery tool in the market"

3.5/5

What do you like best about HashiCorp Consul?

Consul helps us in creating a highly available infrastructure based on top of premptible VM's Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

Lack of third party integrations with popular open source tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/10/2019

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Consul has best service discovery features and enables total automation"

4/5

What do you like best about HashiCorp Consul?

Consul helps in service discovery and sets us free to operate on other aspects of automation. Automatic DNS is very notable experience IMO Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HashiCorp Consul?

Consul has a vibrant community support however I would like many third party applications so that we can integrate our favorite tools with Consul Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.