Consul
Why choose Consul?
HashiCorp Consul is a service networking platform that encompasses multiple capabilities to secure and simplify network service management. These capabilities include service discovery, service mesh, DNS, configuration management, and API gateway functionality.
While competing products offer a few of these core capabilities, Consul combines them in a single product that runs across runtimes and cloud providers. The following table lists each Consul feature, other products that compete with that feature, and a link to a page with additional information:
| Consul use case | Competing products | More information |
|---|---|---|
| Service discovery | Eureka Zookeeper Kubernetes | Consul compared with other service discovery software |
| Service mesh | Istio Solo Gloo Mesh Linkerd Kong/Kuma AWS App Mesh | Consul compared with other service mesh software |
| DNS service | NS1 AWS Route53 AzureDNS Cloudflare DNS | Consul compared with other DNS tools |
| Configuration management | Chef Puppet | Consul compared with other configuration management tools |
| API gateway for applications | Kong Gateway Apigee Mulesoft Gravitee | Consul compared with other API Gateways |