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Introducing the Consul API Gateway

A fully managed platform to automate infrastructure on any cloud with HashiCorp products. The new Consul API Gateway is a dedicated ingress solution for intelligently routing traffic to applications running on the HashiCorp Consul service mesh.

As part of service networking in the multi-cloud era, we find that organizations have four distinct pillars that they need to account for: The new HashiCorp Consul API Gateway is designed to address the access pillar, providing users with consistency in how they handle inbound requests to the service mesh from external clients.

First and foremost, the Consul API Gateway is exactly that, a gateway to the Consul service mesh.

At launch, the Consul API Gateway will support only Kubernetes environments, but the plan is to eventually extend these capabilities to anywhere that Consul service mesh is running.