hashicorp/consul
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 11 days ago, with 350 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #53 in the weekly ranking the week of Nov 30, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a distributed, highly available system to connect and configure applications across dynamic, multi-datacenter infrastructure.
- Enables secure service-to-service communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization via a built-in service mesh.
- Use for implementing service discovery and health checking in microservices architectures to ensure reliable routing and failover.
- Use for managing API gateway traffic and authorization policies within a service mesh to control access to internal services.
- Use for dynamically storing and retrieving application configuration and metadata through a scalable HTTP API.
Should you depend on it?
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License
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- Contributing guide: present
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From the README
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Consul runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows and includes an optional browser based UI. A commercial version called Consul Enterprise 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 by contacting us at [email protected].
Full, comprehensive documentation is available on the Consul website: https://developer.hashicorp.com/consul/docs
Daily snapshots
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Forks
4.6K+21
Open issues
1.4K+36
Compared with peers in API
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anthropics/claude-quickstarts | 20.5K | +733 | 75 | — |
| vxcontrol/pentagi | 33.9K | +719 | 75 | 36 days ago |
| N4darae/shrt | 2.6K | +529 | 8 | — |
| agentgateway/agentgateway | 6.1K | +187 | 75 | 14 days ago |
| hashicorp/consul | 30.1K | — | 64 | 11 days ago |
| BenedictKing/ccx | 4.0K | — | 32 | 117 days ago |
| Category median | 6.1K | +624 | 75 | — |
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