Consul Enterprise

    The following features are available in several forms of Consul Enterprise.

    • : Define administrative boundaries between tenants within a single Consul datacenter
    • Namespaces: Define resource boundaries within a single admin partition for further organizational flexibility

    Resiliency

    • Automated Backups: Configure the automatic backup of Consul state
    • : Deploy backup voting Consul servers to efficiently improve Consul fault tolerance

    Operational Simplification

    • : Ease upgrades by automating the transition from existing to newly deployed Consul servers
    • Consul-Terraform-Sync Enterprise: Leverage the enhanced network infrastructure automation capabilities of the enterprise version of Consul-Terraform-Sync
    • : Support complex network topologies between federated Consul datacenters with pairwise federation rather than full mesh federation
    • Network Segments: Support complex network topologies within a Consul datacenter by enforcing boundaries in Consul client gossip traffic

    Governance

    • OIDC Auth Method: Manage user access to Consul through an OIDC identity provider instead of Consul ACL tokens directly
    • : Understand Consul access and usage patterns by reviewing access to the Consul HTTP API
    • Sentinel for KV: Policy-as-code framework for defining advanced key-value storage access control policies

    The method of accessing Consul Enterprise and its features depends on the whether using HashiCorp Cloud Platform or self-managed Consul.

    You can try out HCP Consul for free. Refer to the for more details.

    Self-Managed Consul

    To access Consul Enterprise in a self-managed installation, to the Consul Enterprise binary that grants access to the desired features.

    Consul Enterprise is offered in several forms that provide a different mix of enterprise features. Choose the form that best suits the needs of your organization.

    Available enterprise features per Consul form and license include: