We performed a comparison between HAProxy and HashiCorp Consul based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Service Mesh solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We use it as a load balancer for our application servers."
"It solves a problem for me where I can build files, not based on the health of the check, but rather the speed of the check."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that it works for my use case of application load balancing. I'm using it for PeerSense, and it's easy enough for PeerSense."
"Load balancing is valuable, and we are also using the WAF feature."
"The most valuable feature of HAProxy is that its open source."
"Advanced traffic rules, including stick tables and ACLs, which allow me to shape traffic while it's load balanced."
"The solution is effective in managing our traffic."
"The ability to handle a sequence of front- and back-ends gives the user the opportunity to send traffic through different services."
"HashiCorp Consul's most valuable feature is the automation of many processes, which limits the errors from user interaction."
"The documentation is good."
"The product's most valuable features are support for Service Mesh TLS and canary deployment."
"It needs proper HTTP/2 support."
"The solution can be improved by controlling TCP behavior better and mandating to clients what the expected outcome must be in order to avoid receiving contestant timeout logs."
"The only area that I can see needing improvement is the management interface, since it is pretty much all through the CLI or configuration. A GUI/web interface could be helpful for users who are not as experienced in the Linux shell. However, HAProxy does have another product that we evaluated called ALOHA, which has a web front-end, but we found it did not meet our needs."
"The configuration should be more friendly, perhaps with a Web interface. For example, I work with the ClusterControl product for Severalnines, and we have a Web interface to deploy the HAProxy load-balancer."
"The GUI should be more responsive and show the detailed output of logs."
"I would like to see better search handling, and a user interface, with a complete functional graphical unit"
"They should introduce one feature that I know many people, including me, are waiting for: HAProxy should have provide hot-swipe for back-end servers. Also, they need a more detailed GUI for monitoring and configuration."
"The product does not have any new technologies."
"They could improve issues related to triggering generic deployments for the platform."
"The command line of HashiCorp Consul could be more intuitive to make it easier to use."
"Health check outputs are delayed sometimes."
HAProxy is ranked 2nd in Service Mesh with 41 reviews while HashiCorp Consul is ranked 6th in Service Mesh with 3 reviews. HAProxy is rated 8.2, while HashiCorp Consul is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of HAProxy writes "Useful for for small and quick load-balancing tasks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HashiCorp Consul writes "A scalable solution that can be used to perform health checks of applications and services". HAProxy is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus, Kemp LoadMaster, Citrix NetScaler and Envoy, whereas HashiCorp Consul is most compared with AWS App Mesh, NGINX Service-Mesh, Kong Mesh, VMware Tanzu Service Mesh and Istio. See our HAProxy vs. HashiCorp Consul report.
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