Announcing HashiCorp Consul + Kubernetes

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Sep 05 2018 Mitchell Hashimoto

We’re excited to announce multiple features that deeply integrate HashiCorp Consul with Kubernetes. This post will share the initial set of features that will be released in the coming weeks.

The features include an official Helm Chart for installing Consul on Kubernetes, automatic syncing of Kubernetes services with Consul (and vice versa), auto-join for external Consul agents to join a cluster in Kubernetes, injectors so pods are automatically secured with Connect, and support for Envoy.

In addition to natively integrating with Kubernetes, these features help solve important cross-cluster challenges between multiple Kubernetes clusters as well as non-Kubernetes services interacting with Kubernetes services. We’re excited to share this work with you.

Integrating with Kubernetes

We’re currently integrating closely with Kubernetes across multiple products.

We see opportunities to solve challenges for pure Kubernetes users by making our products easier to run as well as integrating with and enhancing Kubernetes features.

A core tenet of this integration is to enhance existing features rather than replace.

Features such as Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and more are part of the core Kubernetes workflow. Higher level tools and extensions leverage these core primitives. Therefore, we’re also integrating with and enhancing these core primitives.

For example, the Consul catalog sync converts external services in Consul’s catalog into first-class Kubernetes Service resources. Applications running in Kubernetes can then discover and connect to non-Kubernetes services natively.