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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.