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* Add a contribution guide and link to it from readme * Add first pass at testing section for contribution guide * Format as in README.md * Add responding to community questions as way to contribute
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# Consul [](https://travis-ci.org/hashicorp/consul) [](https://gitter.im/hashicorp-consul/Lobby?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge)
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* Website: https://www.consul.io
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* Chat: [Gitter](https://gitter.im/hashicorp-consul/Lobby)
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* Mailing list: [Google Groups](https://groups.google.com/group/consul-tool/)
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Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is
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distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable.
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Consul provides several key features:
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* **Service Discovery** - Consul makes it simple for services to register
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themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface.
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External services such as SaaS providers can be registered as well.
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* **Health Checking** - Health Checking enables Consul to quickly alert
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operators about any issues in a cluster. The integration with service
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discovery prevents routing traffic to unhealthy hosts and enables service
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level circuit breakers.
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* **Key/Value Storage** - A flexible key/value store enables storing
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dynamic configuration, feature flagging, coordination, leader election and
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more. The simple HTTP API makes it easy to use anywhere.
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* **Multi-Datacenter** - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can
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support any number of regions without complex configuration.
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* **Service Segmentation** - Consul Connect enables secure service-to-service
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communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization.
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Consul runs on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows. A commercial
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version called [Consul Enterprise](https://www.hashicorp.com/products/consul)
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is also available.
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**Please note**: We take Consul's security and our users' trust very seriously. If you
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believe you have found a security issue in Consul, please [responsibly disclose](https://www.hashicorp.com/security#vulnerability-reporting) by
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contacting us at security@hashicorp.com.
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## Quick Start
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An extensive quick start is viewable on the Consul website:
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https://www.consul.io/intro/getting-started/install.html
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## Documentation
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Full, comprehensive documentation is viewable on the Consul website:
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https://www.consul.io/docs
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## Contributing
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Thank you for your interest in contributing! Please refer to [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) for guidance. |