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Introducing the Consul API Gateway

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The new Consul API Gateway is a dedicated ingress solution for intelligently routing traffic to applications running on the HashiCorp Consul service mesh.

Today at HashiConf Global 2021, we are introducing the new Consul API Gateway, 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.

In this blog post, we’ll explore the capabilities of the Consul API Gateway, see how it works, and provide you with next steps for how to access this solution when it becomes broadly available toward the end of the year.

Typically when we talk about service mesh capabilities and benefits, we’re really addressing the challenges of intra-datacenter communication between applications, what we call east-west traffic patterns. In more modern security architectures, we solve this challenge through enforcing strict authorization (access controls, intentions) and encryption (mTLS) practices.

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