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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.

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 Dagar is the creator of Serf. He researched and developed many of the internals of how Serf works, including the gossip layer. Armon is also the creator of Statsite and Bloomd.

Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh)

Mitchell Hashimoto is the creator of Serf, and works on all layers of Serf from the gossip layer up to the CLI. In addition to Serf, Mitchell is the creator of Vagrant and Packer. He is self described as "automation obsessed."