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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 [![CircleCI](https://circleci.com/gh/hashicorp/consul/tree/master.svg?style=svg)](https://circleci.com/gh/hashicorp/consul/tree/master) [![Discuss](https://img.shields.io/badge/discuss-consul-ca2171.svg?style=flat)](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/c/consul)

* Website: https://www.consul.io
* Tutorials: [HashiCorp Learn](https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul)
* Forum: [Discuss](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/c/consul)

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

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/Service Segmentation** - Consul Connect 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 without being aware of Connect at all.

* **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.

* **Key/Value Storage** - A flexible key/value store enables storing
dynamic configuration, feature flagging, coordination, leader election and
more. The simple HTTP API makes it easy to use anywhere.

Consul runs on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows. A commercial
version called [Consul Enterprise](https://www.hashicorp.com/products/consul)
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/tutorials/consul/get-started-install
* **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

## Documentation

Full, comprehensive documentation is available on the Consul website:

https://www.consul.io/docs

## Contributing

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