Consul is a distributed, highly available service mesh and service discovery tool developed by HashiCorp. It enables dynamic service registration, health checking, configuration management, and secure service-to-service communication across various infrastructures.

Features of Consul:

• Automatic service discovery for seamless communication between services.
• Built-in health checking to monitor service availability.
• Support for multi-datacenter deployments.
• Key-value storage for dynamic configuration management.
• Service mesh capabilities with secure TLS encryption.
• API-driven and easily integrable with modern infrastructure tools.

To get started with Consul, ensure it is installed on your system. You can check the installation by running consul --version in your terminal.

Disclaimer: Consul is released under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Users are responsible for understanding the licensing terms and ensuring compliance. Consul is provided "as is" without any warranty.