Consul
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Service mesh and service networking platform for multi-cloud infrastructure
How to Replace ConsulOverview
Features
41 features across 13 categories
Compliance(1)
Define and enforce fine-grained policy rules using Sentinel language.
Data Management(4)
Scheduled automated backups of cluster state with retention policies.
Create and restore snapshots of cluster state.
Distributed configuration management and data storage.
Selectively replicate data across datacenters based on filters.
Deployment(1)
Gradually roll out service updates using canary deployment strategies.
Enterprise(1)
Advanced features for large-scale deployments and compliance.
Infrastructure(4)
Raft-based consensus for consistent distributed state management.
Manage services and configuration across multiple datacenters globally.
Connect services across separate Consul clusters and datacenters.
Deploy read-only Consul servers for improved query performance.
Integration(1)
RESTful API for programmatic access to all Consul features.
Management(4)
Command-line interface for managing Consul clusters and services.
Track configuration changes and manage multiple versions.
Visualize and manage service-to-service communication policies.
Interactive interface for monitoring services and cluster health.
Monitoring(4)
Track requests across services with distributed tracing support.
Monitor service health and automatically mark unhealthy instances.
Export service and cluster metrics to monitoring systems.
Native integration with monitoring and observability platforms.
Multi-tenancy(2)
Create isolated administrative boundaries within clusters.
Isolate multiple tenants and teams within a single cluster.
Networking(7)
Route external traffic to mesh services with advanced traffic management.
Query services and configuration via standard DNS protocol.
Manage outbound traffic from mesh services to external systems.
Control external ingress traffic into your mesh services.
Automatically register and discover services across your infrastructure.
Integrate non-mesh legacy services into your service mesh.
Configure load balancing, failover, and routing policies for services.
Resilience(2)
Automatically prevent cascading failures with circuit breaker patterns.
Configure automatic retry logic for failed service requests.
Security(7)
Fine-grained access control lists for securing API and service access.
Track all API calls and configuration changes for compliance.
Partition cluster networks for enhanced security and isolation.
Secure service-to-service communication with mTLS encryption.
Define and enforce fine-grained access policies between services.
End-to-end TLS encryption for agent communication and service traffic.
Manage secrets and certificates securely with HashiCorp Vault.
Traffic Management(3)
Route traffic to multiple service versions for A/B testing.
Distribute traffic across service instances with multiple algorithms.
Control traffic rates between services with built-in rate limiting.
Pricing
Open Source
- ✓Core service discovery
- ✓health checking
- ✓KV store
- ✓DNS interface
Consul Cloud Standard
- ✓Service mesh features
- ✓basic API gateways
- ✓limited observability
Consul Cloud Plus
Popular- ✓Advanced traffic management
- ✓rate limiting
- ✓circuit breakers
- ✓full observability
Consul Cloud Premium
- ✓Enterprise security
- ✓admin partitions
- ✓namespaces
- ✓sentinel policies
- ✓priority support
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Total Cost Comparison
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Better ValueBuilding could save ~$143,040 over 3 years.
Estimates based on 41 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.
Integrations
30 known integrations