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## What is Consul?
Consul has multiple components, but as a whole, it is a tool for
Consul is a service mesh solution that has multiple components for
discovering, connecting, configuring, and securing services in your
infrastructure. It provides several key features:
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certificates for services to establish mutual TLS connections.
[Intentions](/docs/connect/intentions.html)
can be used to define which services are allowed to communicate.
Service segmentation can be easily managed with intentions that can
be changed in real time instead of using complex network topologies
and static firewall rules.
* **Multi Datacenter**: Consul supports multiple datacenters out of the box. This
means users of Consul do not have to worry about building additional layers of

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least one separate distributed system (in addition to Istio) must be
configured for the full functionality of Istio.
Istio is architected to work on any platform. However, the documentation
and resources for installing and configuring Istio on non-Kubernetes systems
are few and the number of moving pieces Istio requires poses a challenge for
installation, configuration, and operation.
Istio plans to work on any platform, but currently has a hard dependency
on the Kubernetes API. While the documentation covers connecting non-Kubernetes
services, it assumes that a Kubernetes deployment exists for the control
plane.
Istio provides layer 7 features for path-based routing, traffic shaping,
load balancing, and telemetry. Access control policies can be configured
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Consul uses an agent-based model where each node in the cluster runs a
Consul Client. This client maintains a local cache that is efficiently updated
from servers. As a result, all secure service communication APIs respond in
microseconds and do not require any external communication. Further,
service-to-service communication continues operating even if the Consul
cluster is degraded.
microseconds and do not require any external communication. This allows us to
do connection enforcement at the edge without communicating to central
servers. Istio flows requests to a central Mixer service and must push
updates out via Pilot. This dramatically reduces the scalability of Istio,
whereas Consul is able to efficiently distribute updates and perform all
work on the edge.
The data plane for Consul is pluggable. It includes a built-in proxy with
a larger performance trade off for ease of use. But you may also use third