HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Service Mesh

Re:HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Service Mesh by kamura on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @04:54AM (#17398898)

Could someone care to elaborate what are the main differences between Consul and Istio? What would be the primary reasons to choose one service mesh over the other?

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Re:HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Service Mesh by anubhavmishra on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @05:12AM (#17398995)

Here is a section on the HashiCorp Consul website dedicated to it. https://www.consul.io/intro/vs/istio.html

I hope it helps

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Re:HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Service Mesh by jrs95 on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @09:10AM (#17400263)

Well, I don't know how mature the service mesh aspects of Consul will be now, but the rest of it is a very mature product that provides a distributed K/V store like etcd and also provides service discovery via either REST or DNS.

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Re:HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Service Mesh by cube2222 on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @05:32AM (#17399095)

Consul is not a service mesh. At its core it's a distributed key-value store which is commonly used for service discovery, configuration management and healthchecks.

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Re:HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Service Mesh by lifty on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @05:35AM (#17399108)

Consul just became a service mesh. It’s in the release notes.

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