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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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Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.

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Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.



* Website: https://www.consul.io

* Tutorials: [HashiCorp Learn](https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul)

* Forum: [Discuss](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/c/consul)



Consul provides several key features:



* **Multi-Datacenter** - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can

  support any number of regions without complex configuration.



* **Service Mesh** - Consul Service Mesh enables secure service-to-service

  communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization. Applications

  can use sidecar proxies in a service mesh configuration to establish TLS

  connections for inbound and outbound connections with Transparent Proxy.



* **API Gateway** - Consul API Gateway manages access to services within Consul Service Mesh, 

  allow users to define traffic and authorization policies to services deployed within the mesh.  



* **Service Discovery** - Consul makes it simple for services to register

  themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface.

  External services such as SaaS providers can be registered as well.



* **Health Checking** - Health Checking enables Consul to quickly alert

  operators about any issues in a cluster. The integration with service

  discovery prevents routing traffic to unhealthy hosts and enables service

  level circuit breakers.



* **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

called [Consul Enterprise](https://www.consul.io/docs/enterprise) is also

available.



**Please note**: We take Consul's security and our users' trust very seriously. If you

believe you have found a security issue in Consul, please [responsibly disclose](https://www.hashicorp.com/security#vulnerability-reporting)

by contacting us at [email protected].



## Quick Start



A few quick start guides are available on the Consul website:



* **Standalone binary install:** https://learn.hashicorp.com/collections/consul/get-started-vms

* **Minikube install:** https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/kubernetes-minikube

* **Kind install:** https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/kubernetes-kind

* **Kubernetes install:** https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/kubernetes-deployment-guide

* **Deploy HCP Consul:** https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/hcp-gs-deploy 



## Documentation



Full, comprehensive documentation is available on the Consul website: https://consul.io/docs



## Contributing



Thank you for your interest in contributing! Please refer to [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/main/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)

for guidance. For contributions specifically to the browser based UI, please

refer to the UI's [README.md](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/main/ui/packages/consul-ui/README.md)

for guidance.