How to Build Your Own Consul

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Create isolated administrative boundaries within clusters.

Isolate multiple tenants and teams within a single cluster.