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Consul is a multi-networking tool that offers a fully featured service mesh solution that solves the networking and security challenges of operating microservices and cloud infrastructure (multi-cloud and hybrid cloud). Consul uses service identities and traditional networking practices to help organizations securely connect applications running in any environment.

key features:

1. Service Discovery: Clients of Consul can register a service, such as api or mysql, and other clients can use Consul to discover providers of a given service.
2. Health Checking: Consul clients can provide any number of health checks, either associated with a given service, or with the local node
3. KV Store: Applications can make use of Consul's hierarchical key/value store for any number of purposes, including dynamic configuration, feature flagging, coordination, leader election, and more.
4. Secure Service Communication: Consul can generate and distribute TLS certificates for services to establish mutual TLS connections.
5. Multi Datacenter: Consul supports multiple datacenters out of the box.

Disclaimer : This Virtual machine offer contains free and open source software. All the softwares, trademarks used in the Virtual machine offer are the exclusive property of their respective owners. Askforcloud LLC does not offer commercial license of the product mentioned above. Hashicorp Consul is a registered trademark of HashiCorp Inc. Hashicorp Consul is licensed under the Mozilla Public License v2.0 .

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