8500

TCP

Consul

HashiCorp Consul

⚠️ Security: DependsStatus: Active🌐 Category: Network

📋 Basic Information

Port Number
8500
Protocol
TCP
Service
Consul
Popularity
🔥 High
Description
HashiCorp Consul HTTP API for service discovery, health checking, KV store, and multi-datacenter support in microservices architecture
Tags
service-discoveryhealth-checkdistributed

🔒 Security Information

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Security Notes

Use ACL tokens, TLS encryption required, configure gossip encryption

🛠️ Installation

🐧Linux

# Linux (Binary)
wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/consul/1.16.0/consul_1.16.0_linux_amd64.zip
unzip consul_1.16.0_linux_amd64.zip
sudo mv consul /usr/local/bin/
consul agent -dev

🐳Docker

docker run -d --name consul -p 8500:8500 consul:latest agent -server -ui -bootstrap-expect=1 -client=0.0.0.0

✓Check

curl http://localhost:8500/v1/status/leader

📚 References