Consul
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure. observed · 2026-10-16
Health v2 · maintenance only
94/100
- Activity 100
- Release rhythm 82
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 0.0
- age_days: 4733
- days_rel: 40
- days_push: 5
- n_releases_24m: 75
Adoption not part of the score
30087 stars · 4629 forks observed · 2026-10-16
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-10-05, confidence 0.97
Consul is a distributed service networking platform that provides service discovery, health checking, and a service mesh. It offers a control plane for registering services and a data plane with sidecar proxies for secure communication.
Use cases
- register services and discover them via DNS or HTTP API
- secure service-to-service traffic with automatic TLS and identity-based authorization
- manage traffic routing and load balancing with an API gateway
- store dynamic configuration and feature flags for applications
- monitor health of services and trigger circuit breakers
When to choose
- you need a multi‑datacenter service discovery solution that works across VMs, containers, and Kubernetes
- you want built‑in service mesh capabilities with sidecar proxies and zero‑trust networking
- you require a unified control plane for service registration, health checks, and dynamic configuration
When to avoid
- you prefer a lightweight DNS‑only discovery tool without mesh features
- your environment is limited to a single cloud provider and you can use native load balancers
- you need a fully managed SaaS offering and do not want to operate the control plane yourself
Facets
service · maturity active
service-discovery microservices api-gateway configuration-management networking routing microservices cloud-computing networking windows cloud self-hosted service-mesh service-discovery multi-datacenter raft-consensus gossip-protocol sidecar-proxy envoy-integration acl tls-encryption health-checking devops linux macos docker kubernetes
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul · fetched 2026-10-16 · d7157a7287f6
- homepage: https://www.consul.io · fetched 2026-09-21 · 80b1da04578e
- site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/hcp/docs/vault-radar · fetched 2026-09-21 · 558d122b761a
- site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/install · fetched 2026-09-21 · 244e78c9ccd8
- site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/docs · fetched 2026-09-21 · 431ed41f36b0
- site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/api-docs · fetched 2026-09-21 · 1db90742de70
- site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/docs/intro · fetched 2026-09-21 · 7a10a53b7fad
- site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/docs/architecture/control-plane · fetched 2026-09-21 · 021e10c0982b
- site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/docs/architecture/data-plane · fetched 2026-09-21 · 945602f34fea
- site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/docs/concept/catalog · fetched 2026-09-21 · 16c2fd4342fa
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| hashicorp/consul | main | 94 |
| hashicorp/consul-template | plugin | 93 |
| hashicorp/consul-k8s | infra | 94 |
| hashicorp/consul-replicate | plugin | 77 |
| hashicorp/consul-helm | infra | 10 |
| hashicorp/consul-haproxy | plugin | 10 |
| hashicorp/consul-esm | plugin | 91 |
| hashicorp/consul-terraform-sync | plugin | 95 |
| hashicorp/consul-api-gateway | plugin | 10 |
For agents
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