HashiCorp Consul

HashiCorp Consul

20 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Consul	Score9.6 out of 10	N/A	HashiCorp Consul is a tool for discovering and configuring services in the IT infrastructure. It provides service discovery, health checking, key/value stores and support for multiple data centers out of the box.	$0 always free

Pricing

Consul

Open Source (self-managed): $0
always free
HCP Consul (Cloud): $0.027/hr
Per Hour
Enterprise: Self-Managed Custom Deployments

Pricing Offerings
Consul
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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	Consul
Considered Both Products	HashiCorp Borislav Traykov DevOps Team Leader in Engineering at Cognyte (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Consul We used to use Microsoft SQL Server for configuration management of our services. Unfortunately that was a pain because of: Developers did not know how to persist objects effectively in MS SQL Server Incentivized Helpful? Erlon Sousa Pinheiro Senior Devops Engineer in Information Technology at SOTI (Computer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Consul We used and evaluated solutions like AWS KMS, etcd, regular config files spread out by puppet, etc. Consul was the best option through our tests. Still a product with huge room for improvement, but like the other HashiCorp products it is a valuable product to support your … Incentivized Helpful? Eric Krueger Operations/Systems Manager in Information Technology at Crowell Systems (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Consul Consul was easier to configure out of the box than Serf and gave us more initial options. Its easy to use tools and support were by far superior to Serf in many ways. Support alone was one of those areas that Serf could take an example from Consul to keep its customers happy. Incentivized Helpful? Claudio Fernando Maciel Sr. Software Developer in Research & Development at CONSLOG - Construction Software (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Consul We studied Zoekeeper, trying to decide which could become our service broker tool of choice. But although it is meant to be a very high performance tool, it got immensely shadowed by the vast plethora of available tools that Consul offers. The monitoring, health checking tools, … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Consul
Likelihood to Recommend	8.1 (5 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (2 ratings)