HashiCorp Consul Has a Free API: Service Discovery and Configuration for Distributed Systems

Consul is a multi-networking tool that provides service discovery, service mesh, and configuration management. It enables services to discover each other, secure their communication, and manage runtime configuration. What Is Consul? Consul by HashiCorp provides a full-featured service mesh, service discovery via DNS or HTTP, health checking, and a distributed key-value store. It works across clouds and platforms. Key Features: Service discovery (DNS + HTTP API) Health checking KV store for dynamic configuration Service mesh with mTLS Multi-datacenter support Intentions (service-to-service ACL) Prepared queries Watches and blocking queries Quick Start # Install brew install consul # Start dev agent consul agent -dev # Web UI at http://localhost:8500 Consul HTTP API import requests CONSUL = " http://localhost:8500/v1 " # Register a service requests . put ( f " { CONSUL } /agent/service/register " , json = { " Name " : " web-api " , " ID " : " web-api-1 " , " Port " : 8080 , " Tags " : [