» Consul Enterprise

Consul Enterprise simplifies operations by automating workflows. It adds support for microservices deployments across complex network topologies. It also increases both scalability and resilience. Features include:

• Automated Backups
• Automated Upgrades
• Enhanced Read Scalability
• Redundancy Zones
• Advanced Federation for Complex Network Topologies
• Network Segments
• Sentinel

These features are part of Consul Enterprise.

» Licensing

Licensing capabilities were added to Consul Enterprise v1.1.0. The license is set once for a datacenter and will automatically propagate to all nodes within the datacenter over a period of time scaled between 1 and 20 minutes depending on the number of nodes in the datacenter. The license can be set via the API or the CLI. When Consul is first started, a 30 minute temporary license is available to allow for time to license the datacenter. The license should be set within ten minutes of starting the first Consul process to allow time for the license to propagate.