Consul

What is Consul?

Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.

 

The entire lifecycle of Consul

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Consul. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.

Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Consul (HashiCorp)

 

What is the Consul release strategy?

HashiCorp will support Generally Available (GA) releases of active products for up to two (2) years. Eligible code-fixes and hot-fixes are provided via a new minor release (Z) on top of the latest “major release” branch, for up to two (2) releases from the most current major release. A major release is identified by a change in the first (X) or second (Y) digit in the following versioning nomenclature: Version X.Y.Z. As a best practice, HashiCorp expects customers to stay current within two (2) releases from the latest major release in order to receive optimal support. Release updates for Customers are provided regularly on HashiCorp product pages for each HashiCorp product.

Facts and figures about Consul

 

 

Keywords

Consul

 

HashiCorp

 

System component

 

Release

 

Version

 

Major

 

Minor

 

Patch

 

End-of-life

 

EOL

 

Support

 

End-of-support

 

EOS

 

Maintenance

 

End-of-maintenance

 

EOM

 

Security

 

Long-term support

 

LTS

 

Vulnerabilities

 

Common vulnerabilities & exposures

 

CVE

 

Security