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} ++ Consul provides a registry of all the running nodes and + services, along with their current health status. This + allows operators to understand the environment, and + applications and automation tools to interact with dynamic + infrastructure using an HTTP API. +
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+ + Consul enables service discovery using a built-in DNS + server. This allows existing applications to easily + integrate, as almost all applications support using DNS to + resolve IP addresses. Using DNS instead of a static IP + address allows services to scale up/down and route around + failures easily. +
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++ Consul provides an HTTP API to query the service registry + for nodes, services, and health check information. The API + also supports blocking queries, or long-polling for any + changes. This allows automation tools to react to services + being registered or health status changes to change + configurations or traffic routing in real time. +
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++ Consul supports multiple datacenters out of the box with no + complicated configuration. Look up services in other + datacenters or keep the request local. Advanced features + like Prepared Queries enable automatic failover to other + datacenters. +
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++ Pairing service discovery with health checking prevents + routing requests to unhealthy hosts and enables services to + easily provide circuit breakers. +
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+ + Use Consul service discovery and service mesh features with + Kubernetes.{' '} +
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+ + Secure and observe communication between your services + without modifying their code. +
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+ + Automate load balancer configuration with Consul and + HAProxy, Nginx, or F5. +
++ Provision clusters on any infrastructure, connect to + services over TLS via proxy integrations, and Serve TLS + certificates with pluggable Certificate Authorities. +
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+ + Consul Open Source addresses the technical complexity of + connecting services across distributed infrastructure. +
++ Consul Enterprise addresses the organizational complexity of + large user bases and compliance requirements with collaboration + and governance features. +
++ Service-to-service communication policy at Layer 7 can be + managed centrally, enabling advanced traffic management + patterns such as service failover, path-based routing, and + traffic shifting that can be applied across public and + private clouds, platforms, and networks. +
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++ Centrally managed service observability at Layer 7 including + detailed metrics on all service-to-service communication + such as connections, bytes transferred, retries, timeouts, + open circuits, and request rates, response codes. +
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+ + Secure communication between legacy and modern workloads. + Sidecar proxies allow applications to be integrated without + code changes and Layer 4 support provides nearly universal + protocol compatibility. +
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+ + TLS certificates are used to identify services and secure + communications. Certificates use the SPIFFE format for + interoperability with other platforms. Consul can be a + certificate authority to simplify deployment, or integrate + with external signing authorities like Vault. +
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+ + All traffic between services is encrypted and authenticated + with mutual TLS. Using TLS provides a strong guarantee of + the identity of services communicating, and ensures all data + in transit is encrypted. +
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++ Connect between different cloud regions, VPCs and between + overlay and underlay networks without complex network + tunnels and NAT. Mesh Gateways solve routing at TLS layer + while preserving end-to-end encryption and limiting attack + surface area at the edge of each network. +
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