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We performed a comparison between Envoy and HashiCorp Consul based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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    Top Answer:The product's most valuable features are support for Service Mesh TLS and canary deployment.
    Top Answer:They could improve issues related to triggering generic deployments for the platform. We have raised multiple support cases. They could enhance the integration approach with Service Mesh tools… more »
    Top Answer:I recommend HashiCorp Consul for beginners. It is a stable tool. The key-vault storage feature has significantly enhanced our configuration management process. We have maintained the secret software… more »
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    Envoy
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    Overview

    As on the ground microservice practitioners quickly realize, the majority of operational problems that arise when moving to a distributed architecture are ultimately grounded in two areas: networking and observability. It is simply an orders of magnitude larger problem to network and debug a set of intertwined distributed services versus a single monolithic application.

    Originally built at Lyft, Envoy is a high performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications, as well as a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures. Built on the learnings of solutions such as NGINX, HAProxy, hardware load balancers, and cloud load balancers, Envoy runs alongside every application and abstracts the network by providing common features in a platform-agnostic manner. When all service traffic in an infrastructure flows via an Envoy mesh, it becomes easy to visualize problem areas via consistent observability, tune overall performance, and add substrate features in a single place.

    Multiple clouds and private datacenters with dynamic IPs, ephemeral containers, dominated by east-west traffic, no clear network perimeters.

    CONSUL APPROACH
    -Centralized registry to locate any service
    -Services discovered and connected with centralized policies
    -Network automated in service of applications
    -Zero trust network enforced by identity-based security policies

    Sample Customers
    Airbnb, Booking.com, Cookpad, Digital Ocean, Ebay, F5, Google, GO-JEK, Grubhub, IBM, Medium, Microsoft, Netflix, Pinterest, Salesforce.com, Snapchat, Stripe, Square, Tencent, Twilio, Uber, Verizon, VMware, Vsco, Yahoo Japan, Yelp
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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company24%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Comms Service Provider5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm26%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Insurance Company7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise68%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Envoy is ranked 5th in Service Mesh while HashiCorp Consul is ranked 6th in Service Mesh with 3 reviews. Envoy is rated 0.0, while HashiCorp Consul is rated 7.6. 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". Envoy is most compared with HAProxy, Traefik Enterprise, Kong Mesh and NGINX Service-Mesh, whereas HashiCorp Consul is most compared with AWS App Mesh, NGINX Service-Mesh, Kong Mesh and VMware Tanzu Service Mesh.

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