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Community

Consul is a new project with a growing community. Despite this, there are active, dedicated users willing to help you through various mediums.

IRC: #consul on Freenode

Mailing list: Consul Google Group

Bug Tracker: Issue tracker on GitHub. Please only use this for reporting bugs. Do not ask for general help here. Use IRC or the mailing list for that.

Community Tools: Download Community Tools. Please check out some of the awesome Consul tooling our amazing community has helped build.

Training: Paid HashiCorp training courses are also available in a city near you. Private training courses are also available.

People

The following people are some of the faces behind Consul. They each contribute to Consul in some core way. Over time, faces may appear and disappear from this list as contributors come and go.

Armon Dadgar (@armon)

Armon Dadgar is the creator of Consul. He researched and developed most of the internals of how Consul works, including the gossip layer, leader election, etc. Armon is also the creator of Serf, Statsite, and Bloomd.

Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh)

Mitchell Hashimoto is a co-creator of Consul. He primarily took a management role in the creation of Consul, guiding product and user experience decisions on top of Armon's technical decisions. Mitchell Hashimoto is also the creator of Vagrant, Packer, and Serf.

Jack Pearkes (@pearkes)

Jack Pearkes created and maintains the Consul web UI. He is also a core committer to Packer and maintains many successful open source projects while also being an employee of HashiCorp.

Ryan Uber (@ryanuber)

Ryan Uber is a core contributor to Consul where he works on all facets of Consul. He is also a core committer to Serf, Nomad, and the Consul tools ecosystem, all while being an employee at HashiCorp.

James Phillips (@slackpad)

James Phillips is a core contributor to Consul where he works on all facets of Consul, including network tomography and prepared queries. He is also a core committer to Serf and the Consul tools ecosystem, all while being an employee at HashiCorp.

Seth Vargo (@sethvargo)

Seth Vargo is a contributor to Consul, but his main focus is the Consul tools ecosystem. He is also a core committer to Vagrant, Packer, and Vault, and many more open source projects, all while being an employee at HashiCorp.

William Tisäter (@tiwilliam)

William Tisäter is a Consul core committer. He is also the maintainer of pygeoip and builds things daily at Tictail.

Ryan Breen (@ryanbreen)

Ryan Breen is a Consul committer. He is also the maintainer of git2consul, fsconsul, and gosecret. Ryan works at Cimpress building infrastructure for mass customization of consumer goods.