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Prior to #13244, connect proxies and gateways could only be configured by an xDS session served by the local client agent. In an upcoming release, it will be possible to deploy a Consul service mesh without client agents. In this model, xDS sessions will be handled by the servers themselves, which necessitates load-balancing to prevent a single server from receiving a disproportionate amount of load and becoming overwhelmed. This introduces a simple form of load-balancing where Consul will attempt to achieve an even spread of load (xDS sessions) between all healthy servers. It does so by implementing a concurrent session limiter (limiter.SessionLimiter) and adjusting the limit according to autopilot state and proxy service registrations in the catalog. If a server is already over capacity (i.e. the session limit is lowered), Consul will begin draining sessions to rebalance the load. This will result in the client receiving a `RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED` status code. It is the client's responsibility to observe this response and reconnect to a different server. Users of the gRPC client connection brokered by the consul-server-connection-manager library will get this for free. The rate at which Consul will drain sessions to rebalance load is scaled dynamically based on the number of proxies in the catalog. |
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README.md
Consul
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
- Website: https://www.consul.io
- Tutorials: HashiCorp Learn
- Forum: Discuss
Consul provides several key features:
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Multi-Datacenter - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can support any number of regions without complex configuration.
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Service Mesh/Service Segmentation - Consul Connect enables secure service-to-service communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization. Applications can use sidecar proxies in a service mesh configuration to establish TLS connections for inbound and outbound connections without being aware of Connect at all.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Consul runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows and includes an optional browser based UI. A commercial version called Consul Enterprise is also available.
Please note: We take Consul's security and our users' trust very seriously. If you believe you have found a security issue in Consul, please responsibly disclose by contacting us at security@hashicorp.com.
Quick Start
A few quick start guides are available on the Consul website:
- Standalone binary install: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/get-started-install
- Minikube install: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/kubernetes-minikube
- Kind install: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/kubernetes-kind
- Kubernetes install: https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/kubernetes-deployment-guide
Documentation
Full, comprehensive documentation is available on the Consul website:
Contributing
Thank you for your interest in contributing! Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md for guidance. For contributions specifically to the browser based UI, please refer to the UI's README.md for guidance.