HashiCorp Consul Reviews

Name: HashiCorp Consul
Brand: HashiCorp
Rating: 4 (3 reviews)

Vendor: HashiCorp

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Multiple clouds and private datacenters with dynamic IPs, ephemeral containers, dominated by east-west traffic, no clear network perimeters.

HashiCorp Consul is the #6 ranked solution in top Service Mesh solutions. PeerSpot users give HashiCorp Consul an average rating of 7.6 out of 10. HashiCorp Consul is most commonly compared to HAProxy: HashiCorp Consul vs HAProxy. HashiCorp Consul is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 68% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 26% of all views.

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Phanindra Sangers

Associate DevOps Engineer at a computer software company with 1-10 employees

Jan 24, 2024

The primary use case for HashiCorp Consul is in a microservices architecture, particularly within a premium application involving various streaming services like Kafka The product's most valuable features are support for Service Mesh TLS and canary deployment. They could improve issues related…

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Kerrigon Isaacs

Security Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 24, 2022

HashiCorp Consul's most valuable feature is the automation of many processes, which limits the errors from user interaction. The command line of HashiCorp Consul could be more intuitive to make it easier to use. I have been using HashiCorp Consul for approximately two years. HashiCorp Consul…

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Manjunath Reddy

Senior Customer Architect at Kinvey

Nov 17, 2023

I use the solution for service discovery and orchestration. We have a lot of microservices architecture The solution is useful for performing health checks of the applications and services. The documentation is good. Health check outputs are delayed sometimes. If a service is down for more than…

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HashiCorp Consul market share

As of March 2024, the market share of HashiCorp Consul in the Service Mesh category stands at 9.5%, marking an increase of 93.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"The product's most valuable features are support for Service Mesh TLS and canary deployment."
"The documentation is good."
"HashiCorp Consul's most valuable feature is the automation of many processes, which limits the errors from user interaction."

Room for Improvement

"They could improve issues related to triggering generic deployments for the platform."
"Health check outputs are delayed sometimes."
"The command line of HashiCorp Consul could be more intuitive to make it easier to use."

Pricing

"In case of budget constraints, we opt for the product's business support licenses and use an open-source version"

These insights are based on the in-depth reviews provided by peers to help you make a better buying decision.

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Financial Services Firm

26%

Computer Software Company

13%

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Insurance Company

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CONSUL APPROACH
-Centralized registry to locate any service
-Services discovered and connected with centralized policies
-Network automated in service of applications
-Zero trust network enforced by identity-based security policies