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* IRC: `#consul` on Freenode
* Mailing list: [Google Groups](https://groups.google.com/group/consul-tool/)
Consul is a tool for managing and coordinating infrastructure. To do that
it provides several key features:
Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is
distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable.
* Service Discovery - Services can register themselves and to easily
discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface.
Consul provides several key features:
* Health Checking - Health Checking enables Consul to quickly alert
* **Service Discovery** - Consul makes it simple for services to register
themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface.
External services such as SaaS providers can be registered as well.
* **Health Checking** - Health Checking enables Consul to quickly alert
operators about any issues in a cluster. The integration with service
discovery prevents routing traffic to unhealthy hosts and enables service
level circuit breakers.
* Key/Value Store - A flexible key/value store enables storing dynamic configuration
feature flagging, coordination, leader election and more. The simple HTTP
API makes it easy to use anywhere.
* **Key/Value Storage** - A flexible key/value store enables storing
dynamic configuration, feature flagging, coordination, leader election and
more. The simple HTTP API makes it easy to use anywhere.
* Multi-Datacenter - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can support
any number of regions without complex configuration.
* **Multi-Datacenter** - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can
support any number of regions without complex configuration.
Consul runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It is recommended to run the
Consul servers on Linux however.
Consul servers only on Linux, however.
## Quick Start
First, [download a pre-built Consul binary](http://www.consul.io/downloads.html)
for your operating system or [compile Consul yourself](#developing-consul).
An extensive quick quick start is viewable on the Consul website:
http://www.consul.io/intro/getting-started/install.html