"The documentation is good."
"The product's most valuable features are support for Service Mesh TLS and canary deployment."
"HashiCorp Consul's most valuable feature is the automation of many processes, which limits the errors from user interaction."
"It is a scalable product."
"The command line of HashiCorp Consul could be more intuitive to make it easier to use."
"They could improve issues related to triggering generic deployments for the platform."
"Health check outputs are delayed sometimes."
"The initial setup is complicated. Although Kuma has its own CLI, CTL, and they say to use their CLI, if I have to build a generic solution, my personal preference would be to use Helm or another similar solution other than Kuma. If you have your own library CLI, it becomes hard for others to adopt it. For example, if I have to write some automation, infrastructure automation, I can't just use Kuma. I have to change my code to use Kuma's CTL, which is unfair because it doesn't make sense. It doesn't fit with my current automation structure. I have to do something extra, something additional, which I really don't like."
HashiCorp Consul is ranked 6th in Service Mesh with 3 reviews while Kong Mesh is ranked 3rd in Service Mesh with 1 review. HashiCorp Consul is rated 7.6, while Kong Mesh is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of HashiCorp Consul writes "A scalable solution that can be used to perform health checks of applications and services". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kong Mesh writes "Provides a unique advantage by offering a global view for all workloads and clusters within the mesh but lack of a robust community for open-source support". HashiCorp Consul is most compared with AWS App Mesh, NGINX Service-Mesh, VMware Tanzu Service Mesh, Istio and HAProxy, whereas Kong Mesh is most compared with Istio, Envoy, Traefik Enterprise, NGINX Service-Mesh and AWS App Mesh.
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