My main use case for HashiCorp Consul is for multiple features. In my current organization, we are using it to provide a distributed system with servers, agents, client agents, control plane, and data plane. We are using this in an on-premise environment, and it has good scalability and strengthens the whole environment. This is similar to Kong Connect which I already worked with earlier, but HashiCorp Consul is specifically a distributed solution. When I work with HashiCorp Consul in a normal week, the first thing I'm usually doing is managing the KVs, which are the knowledge base articles. We are also using this for microservices, serverless, and service mesh solutions. What it does is help us to connect, find, and secure communication between the services or applications. We have user services, order services, payment services, and inventory services. What HashiCorp Consul does is eliminate the need to find everything manually. Instead, we use HashiCorp Consul and it provides all the information when we need it.
I work in the IT industry as a technical consultant, and my day-to-day responsibilities involve providing customer solutions, designing solutions, and helping to build infrastructure, mostly on cloud and containers. I have used HashiCorp Consul for multiple features, and in my current organization, we are using it because it provides a distributed system with servers, agents such as client agents, control plane, and data plane. We are using this in an on-premises environment, and it has good scalability, which strengthens the whole environment. This is similar to Kong Konnect, which I worked with earlier, but specifically, this is HashiCorp Consul, and it is a distributed solution. In my use cases, we are using HashiCorp Consul to manage knowledge base articles and microservices such as serverless and service mesh type solutions. It helps us to connect, find, and secure communication between services or between applications. For example, we have user services, order services, payment services, and inventory services. We do not need to find everything manually; we just use HashiCorp Consul, and it provides all the information when we need it.
My main use case for HashiCorp Consul is that we use it as a registry and a health checker and as a service mesh, and we store our configurations in a key-value store and secrets. A quick specific example of how we use HashiCorp Consul for service mesh or health checks in my environment is that we store our secrets, keys, certificate values, companies, and client secrets in HashiCorp Consul.
I perform infrastructure provisioning and many other activities across different cloud providers. HashiCorp Terraform is a very useful tool for tracking resources. We use HashiCorp Vault and HashiCorp Terraform as ideal tools to provision infrastructure in the cloud using simple code. HashiCorp Enterprise Cloud helps us store the state file, which is a great utility for us. When using HashiCorp Enterprise Cloud for Terraform provisioning, we can provision resources even though some errors may be occurring with different resources without any stopper or show stopper. I can provision new resources even though existing errors persist, which is one of the great features from my perspective. For API capability to integrate with other models, we are planning to integrate it, but I did not have any exposure yet. We had a discovery that we need to use the API endpoint to integrate with our existing AI model so that any provisioning can be automated with the AI itself. When I have different environments, I can store variables using HashiCorp Consul. Consider that I'm using the same code for all environments. Using KMS value, I can use the same code in a different environment, which means I'm variablizing it. Only the prod and dev naming conventions may change, nothing more than that. When I'm using this KMS, I can integrate with the same code and re-provision it in any environment.
Associate DevOps Engineer at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
Real User
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.
HashiCorp Consul offers efficient service discovery and management within microservices architectures. It specializes in health checks, service mesh facilitation, and automation, benefiting developers by simplifying service communication without the need for IP configurations.HashiCorp Consul is essential for developers requiring simplified service communication, configuration management, and infrastructure provisioning across cloud platforms. It serves as a registry, health checker, and...
My main use case for HashiCorp Consul is for multiple features. In my current organization, we are using it to provide a distributed system with servers, agents, client agents, control plane, and data plane. We are using this in an on-premise environment, and it has good scalability and strengthens the whole environment. This is similar to Kong Connect which I already worked with earlier, but HashiCorp Consul is specifically a distributed solution. When I work with HashiCorp Consul in a normal week, the first thing I'm usually doing is managing the KVs, which are the knowledge base articles. We are also using this for microservices, serverless, and service mesh solutions. What it does is help us to connect, find, and secure communication between the services or applications. We have user services, order services, payment services, and inventory services. What HashiCorp Consul does is eliminate the need to find everything manually. Instead, we use HashiCorp Consul and it provides all the information when we need it.
I work in the IT industry as a technical consultant, and my day-to-day responsibilities involve providing customer solutions, designing solutions, and helping to build infrastructure, mostly on cloud and containers. I have used HashiCorp Consul for multiple features, and in my current organization, we are using it because it provides a distributed system with servers, agents such as client agents, control plane, and data plane. We are using this in an on-premises environment, and it has good scalability, which strengthens the whole environment. This is similar to Kong Konnect, which I worked with earlier, but specifically, this is HashiCorp Consul, and it is a distributed solution. In my use cases, we are using HashiCorp Consul to manage knowledge base articles and microservices such as serverless and service mesh type solutions. It helps us to connect, find, and secure communication between services or between applications. For example, we have user services, order services, payment services, and inventory services. We do not need to find everything manually; we just use HashiCorp Consul, and it provides all the information when we need it.
My main use case for HashiCorp Consul is configuration.
My main use case for HashiCorp Consul is service discovery with NGINX dynamic upstream and also Vault integrated with Consul as a storage backend.
My main use case for HashiCorp Consul is that we use it as a registry and a health checker and as a service mesh, and we store our configurations in a key-value store and secrets. A quick specific example of how we use HashiCorp Consul for service mesh or health checks in my environment is that we store our secrets, keys, certificate values, companies, and client secrets in HashiCorp Consul.
I perform infrastructure provisioning and many other activities across different cloud providers. HashiCorp Terraform is a very useful tool for tracking resources. We use HashiCorp Vault and HashiCorp Terraform as ideal tools to provision infrastructure in the cloud using simple code. HashiCorp Enterprise Cloud helps us store the state file, which is a great utility for us. When using HashiCorp Enterprise Cloud for Terraform provisioning, we can provision resources even though some errors may be occurring with different resources without any stopper or show stopper. I can provision new resources even though existing errors persist, which is one of the great features from my perspective. For API capability to integrate with other models, we are planning to integrate it, but I did not have any exposure yet. We had a discovery that we need to use the API endpoint to integrate with our existing AI model so that any provisioning can be automated with the AI itself. When I have different environments, I can store variables using HashiCorp Consul. Consider that I'm using the same code for all environments. Using KMS value, I can use the same code in a different environment, which means I'm variablizing it. Only the prod and dev naming conventions may change, nothing more than that. When I'm using this KMS, I can integrate with the same code and re-provision it in any environment.
My main use case for HashiCorp Consul is a proof of concept. I am trying to see how HashiCorp Consul enables our developers.
The primary use case for HashiCorp Consul is in a microservices architecture, particularly within a premium application involving various streaming services like Kafka.
I use the solution for service discovery and orchestration. We have a lot of microservices architecture.