Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Consul is a distributed service mesh and service discovery platform developed by HashiCorp that enables secure communication and dynamic configuration management across infrastructure. Built primarily in Go, it provides service discovery, health checking, API gateway functionality, and secure service-to-service communication through automatic TLS encryption. The project includes comprehensive testing infrastructure using Docker and Terraform, a Go API client for programmatic access, and optional browser-based UI, with support across multiple operating systems including Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows.