Why Choose Consul?

HashiCorp Consul is a service networking platform that encompasses multiple capabilities to secure and simplify network service management. These capabilities include service mesh, service discovery, configuration management, and API gateway functionality. While competing products offer a few of these core capabilities, Consul is developed to address all four. The topics in this section provide a general overview of how Consul’s capabilities compare to some other tools on the market. Visit the following pages to read more about how:

• Consul compares with other service meshes
• Consul compares with other DNS tools
• Consul compares with other configuration management tools
• Consul compares with other API Gateways