README - Update KV use case to Dynamic App Configuration (#18301)

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<span>Consul</span>
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Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
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discovery prevents routing traffic to unhealthy hosts and enables service
level circuit breakers.
* **Key/Value Storage** - A flexible key/value store enables storing
dynamic configuration, feature flagging, coordination, leader election and
more. The simple HTTP API makes it easy to use anywhere.
* **Dynamic App Configuration** - An HTTP API that allows users to store indexed objects within Consul,
for storing configuration parameters and application metadata.
Consul runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows and includes an
optional [browser based UI](https://demo.consul.io). A commercial version

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# Key/Value (KV) Store Overview
<Note>
The Consul KV API, CLI, and UI are now considered feature complete and no new feature development is planned for future releases.
</Note>
Consul KV is a core feature of Consul and is installed with the Consul agent.
Once installed with the agent, it will have reasonable defaults. Consul KV allows
users to store indexed objects, though its main uses are storing configuration