conduit VS consul

Compare conduit vs consul and see what are their differences.

conduit

Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Main repo for Linkerd 2.x. (by linkerd)

consul

Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure. (by hashicorp)
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conduit consul
33 57
10,282 27,678
1.3% 0.5%
9.9 9.9
5 days ago 6 days ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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conduit

Posts with mentions or reviews of conduit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.
  • Optimal JMX Exposure Strategy for Kubernetes Multi-Node Architecture
    2 projects | dev.to | 27 Mar 2024
    Leverage a service mesh like Istio or Linkerd to manage communication between microservices within the Kubernetes cluster. These service meshes can be configured to intercept JMX traffic and enforce access control policies. Benefits:
  • Linkerd no longer shipping open source, stable releases
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Feb 2024
    Looks like CNCF waved them through Graduation anyway, let's look at policies from July 28, 2021 when they were deemed "Graduated"

    All maintainers of the LinkerD project had @boyant.io email addresses. [0] They do list 4 other members of a "Steering Committee", but LinkerD's GOVERNANCE.md gives all of the power to maintainers: [1]

    > Ideally, all project decisions are resolved by maintainer consensus. If this is not possible, maintainers may call a vote. The voting process is a simple majority in which each maintainer receives one vote.

    And CNCF Graduation policy says a project must "Have committers from at least two organizations" [2]. So it appears that the CNCF accepted the "Steering Committee" as an acceptable 2nd committer, even though the Governance policy still gave the maintainers all of the power.

    I would like to know if the Steering Committee voted to remove stable releases from an un-biased position acting in the best interest of the project, or if they were simply ignored or not even advised on the decision.

    I'm all for Boyant doing what they need to do to make money and survive as a Company. But at that point my opinion is that they should withdraw the project from the CNCF and stop pretending like the foundation has any influence on the project's governance.

    [0] https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/blob/489ca1e3189b6a5289d...

  • Ultimate EKS Baseline Cluster: Part 1 - Provision EKS
    17 projects | dev.to | 21 Jul 2023
    From here, we can explore other developments and tutorials on Kubernetes, such as o11y or observability (PLG, ELK, ELF, TICK, Jaeger, Pyroscope), service mesh (Linkerd, Istio, NSM, Consul Connect, Cillium), and progressive delivery (ArgoCD, FluxCD, Spinnaker).
  • Istio moved to CNCF Graduation stage
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jul 2023
    https://linkerd.io/ is a much lighter-weight alternative but you do still get some of the fancy things like mtls without needing any manual configuration. Install it, label your namespaces, and let it do it's thing!
  • API release strategies with API Gateway
    5 projects | dev.to | 22 Dec 2022
    Open source API Gateway (Apache APISIX and Traefik), Service Mesh (Istio and Linkerd) solutions are capable of doing traffic splitting and implementing functionalities like Canary Release and Blue-Green deployment. With canary testing, you can make a critical examination of a new release of an API by selecting only a small portion of your user base. We will cover the canary release next section.
  • GKE with Consul Service Mesh
    29 projects | dev.to | 3 Dec 2022
    I have experimented with other service meshes and I was able to get up to speed quickly: Linkerd = 1 day, Istio = 3 days, NGINX Service Mesh = 5 days, but Consul Connect service mesh took at least 11 days to get off the ground. This is by far the most complex solution available.
  • How is a service mesh implemented on low level?
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 29 Nov 2022
    https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2 (random example)
  • Kubernetes operator written in rust
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 9 Nov 2022
    It’s not an operator but a major component of the Linkerd control plane is written in Rust with kube-rs. https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2/tree/main/policy-controller
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 9 Nov 2022
  • What is a service mesh?
    6 projects | dev.to | 24 Oct 2022
    Out of the number of service mesh solutions that exist, the most popular open source ones are: Linkerd, Istio, and Consul. Here at Koyeb, we are using Kuma.

consul

Posts with mentions or reviews of consul. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-23.
  • Deploy Secure Spring Boot Microservices on Amazon EKS Using Terraform and Kubernetes
    13 projects | dev.to | 23 Nov 2023
    The JHipster scaffolded sample application has a gateway application and two microservices. It uses Consul for service discovery and centralized configuration.
  • The Complete Microservices Guide
    17 projects | dev.to | 21 Sep 2023
    Service Discovery: Microservices need to discover and communicate with each other dynamically. Service discovery tools like etcd, Consul, or Kubernetes built-in service discovery mechanisms help locate and connect to microservices running on different nodes within the infrastructure.
  • Replicating and Load Balancing Go Applications in Docker Containers with Consul and Fabio
    4 projects | /r/golang | 31 May 2023
    After some research and testing, I landed on using Consul and Fabio as the demo infrastructure. Of course, there is a myriad of other options to accomplish this task, but because of the low configuration and ease of use, I was impressed with this pairing. Both projects are mature and well-supported, and very flexible--just because you can run them with low configuration, doesn't mean you have to. I wanted to keep this demo constrained, but the exercise did get me excited about exploring things further: circuit breakers, traffic splitting, and more complex service meshes.
  • Fly.io outage, recently deployed apps down, no new deployments possible
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Mar 2023
    https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/12080 - this should be the Consul issue that brought down Roblox
  • Netdata release 1.38.0
    9 projects | /r/linux | 6 Feb 2023
    The Consul collector is production ready! Consul by HashiCorp is a powerful and complex identity-based networking solution, which is not trivial to monitor. We were lucky to have the assistance of HashiCorp itself in this endeavor, which resulted in a monitoring solution of exceptional quality. Look for common blog posts and announcements in the coming weeks!
  • Micro Frontends for Java Microservices
    6 projects | dev.to | 20 Jan 2023
    Changed the service discovery to Consul, since this is the default in JHipster 8.
  • I Know What You Shipped Last Summer
    5 projects | dev.to | 20 Dec 2022
    In another effort to standardize development and operations, Lob has just wrapped up our container orchestration migration from Convox to HashiCorp’s Nomad, led by Senior Platform Engineer Elijah Voigt. In this new ecosystem, one feature available to us is Consul Service Mesh (a feature of Consul, which is part of our Lob Nomad stack).
  • a tool for quickly creating web and microservice code
    28 projects | dev.to | 15 Dec 2022
    Service registry and discovery etcd, consul, nacos
  • GKE with Consul Service Mesh
    29 projects | dev.to | 3 Dec 2022
    The underlying tool Consul is very powerful, and Consul Connect service mesh on top of this tool is quite robust and extremely flexible where you can swap out the default CA for other solutions, like Vault CA, and swap out the Envoy proxy for another solution, like NGINX or HAProxy. For ingress into the cluster, you can use Consul API Gateway, or another API Gateway or an ingress controller.
  • What is the best solution to orchestrate Docker containers ?
    3 projects | /r/docker | 11 Nov 2022
    I'd like to also mention hashicorp nomad + consul. They're worth evaluating.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing conduit and consul you can also consider the following projects:

etcd - Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

Eureka - AWS Service registry for resilient mid-tier load balancing and failover.

traefik - The Cloud Native Application Proxy

Caddy - Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

Apache ZooKeeper - Apache ZooKeeper

kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

minio - The Object Store for AI Data Infrastructure

nsq - A realtime distributed messaging platform

Vault - A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management

Rundeck - Enable Self-Service Operations: Give specific users access to your existing tools, services, and scripts

Nomad - Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.

vaultwarden - Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs