Capabilities

Consul is a platform to discover, automate, and secure service networking across any cloud or runtime. Consul is a multi-networking tool that offers a fully-featured service mesh solution that solves the networking and security challenges of operating microservices and cloud infrastructure. Consul offers a software-driven approach to routing and segmentation. It also brings additional benefits such as failure handling, retries, and network observability. Each of these features can be used individually as needed or they can be used together to build a full service mesh and achieve zero trust security. You can use Consul with virtual machines (VMs), containers, or with container orchestration platforms, such as Nomad and Kubernetes. Consul is platform agnostic which makes it a great fit for all environments, including legacy platforms.