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Announcing HashiCorp Consul 1.11 Beta

Category: Business, Kubernetes, containerization, Hashicorp

A fully managed platform to automate infrastructure on any cloud with HashiCorp products. HashiCorp Consul 1.11 adds important new features: multi-tenancy with administrative partitions and a new installation-and-management Consul Kubernetes CLI.

That helps operations teams to better scale and manage complex architectures, as shown below: Consul 1.11 also provides a first-class Consul Kubernetes command line interface (CLI) for a new way of interacting with Consul when deploying on Kubernetes. The primary goal for the Consul Kubernetes CLI is to lower the barrier to adoption for developers who want to use a Consul service mesh on Kubernetes.

Previously, in order to customize your installation, you had to create a values.yaml file and provide config options as described in the Helm Chart Configuration docs, as shown here: With the Consul Kubernetes CLI, installing Consul on Kubernetes is as simple as: In addition, there are new preset options to install Consul on Kubernetes in a pre-configured demo or secure setting: We are excited for users to try this release of Consul and further expand their service mesh implementations.

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