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We performed a comparison between HashiCorp Consul and NGINX Service-Mesh based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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A scalable solution that can be used to perform health checks of applications and services
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    What do you like most about HashiCorp Consul?
    Top Answer:The product's most valuable features are support for Service Mesh TLS and canary deployment.
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    What needs improvement with HashiCorp Consul?
    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 »
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    What advice do you have for others considering HashiCorp Consul?
    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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    Overview

    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

    Designed to be lightweight and seamless, NGINX Service Mesh scales from open source projects to a fully supported, secure, and scalable enterprise class solution that enables users to take control of Kubernetes with a turnkey, secure, service-to-service solution featuring a unified data plane for ingress and egress management in a single configuration.

    NGINX Service Mesh provides the seamless and transparent load balancing, reverse proxy, traffic routing, identity, and encryption features needed for production-grade service mesh deployments. When paired with the NGINX Plus-based version of NGINX Ingress Controller, it provides a unified data plane that can be managed with a single configuration.

    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm27%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Insurance Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Retailer5%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise69%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%

    HashiCorp Consul is ranked 6th in Service Mesh with 3 reviews while NGINX Service-Mesh is ranked 4th in Service Mesh. HashiCorp Consul is rated 7.6, while NGINX Service-Mesh is rated 0.0. 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, HashiCorp Consul is most compared with AWS App Mesh, Kong Mesh, VMware Tanzu Service Mesh, Istio and HAProxy, whereas NGINX Service-Mesh is most compared with Istio, Envoy, AWS App Mesh, Buoyant Linkerd and Kong Mesh.

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