[kamura]

Could someone care to elaborate what are the main differences between Consul and Istio? What would be the primary reasons to choose one service mesh over the other?

[anubhavmishra]

Here is a section on the HashiCorp Consul website dedicated to it. https://www.consul.io/intro/vs/istio.html

I hope it helps

[jrs95]

Well, I don't know how mature the service mesh aspects of Consul will be now, but the rest of it is a very mature product that provides a distributed K/V store like etcd and also provides service discovery via either REST or DNS.

[cube2222]

Consul is not a service mesh. At its core it's a distributed key-value store which is commonly used for service discovery, configuration management and healthchecks.

[lifty]

Consul just became a service mesh. It’s in the release notes.