Hashicorp Consul Consulting

MeteorOps provides HashiCorp Consul Consulting services to help you deploy, scale, and configure HashiCorp Consul in your organization
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Last Updated:
September 6, 2024
common challenges

Most Hashicorp Consul Implementations Look Like This

Months spent searching for a Hashicorp Consul expert with experience.

Risk of hiring the wrong Hashicorp Consul expert after all that time and effort.

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Not enough work to justify a full-time Hashicorp Consul expert hire.

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Full-time is too expensive when part-time assistance in Hashicorp Consul would suffice.

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Constant management required until the Hashicorp Consul expert is comfortable.

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Collecting technical debt by doing Hashicorp Consul yourself.

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Difficulty finding an agency specialized in Hashicorp Consul that meets expectations.

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Development slows down because Hashicorp Consul tasks are neglected.

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Frequent context-switches when managing Hashicorp Consul.

There's an easier way
the meteorops method

Flexible capacity of talented Hashicorp Consul Engineers

Save time and costs on mastering and implementing Hashicorp Consul.
How? Like this 👇

Free Project Planning: We dive into your goals and current state to prepare before a kickoff.

2-hour Onboarding: We prepare the Hashicorp Consul expert before the kickoff based on the work plan.

Focused Kickoff Session: We review the Hashicorp Consul work plan together and choose the first steps.

Pay-as-you-go: Use our capacity when you need it, none of that retainer nonsense.

Build Rapport: Work with the same Hashicorp Consul expert through the entire engagement.

Experts On-Demand: Get new experts from our team when you need specific knowledge or consultation.

We Don't Sleep: Just kidding we do sleep, but we can flexibly hop on calls when you need.

Top 0.7% of Hashicorp Consul specialists: Work with the same Hashicorp Consul specialist through the entire engagement.

Hashicorp Consul Expertise: Our Hashicorp Consul experts bring experience and insights from multiple companies.

Shared Slack Channel: This is where we update and discuss the Hashicorp Consul work.

Weekly Hashicorp Consul Syncs: Discuss our progress, blockers, and plan the next Hashicorp Consul steps with a weekly cycle.

Weekly Hashicorp Consul Sync Summary: After every Hashicorp Consul sync we send a summary of everything discussed.

Hashicorp Consul Progress Updates: As we work, we update on Hashicorp Consul progress and discuss the next steps with you.

Ad-hoc Calls: When we a video call works better than a chat, we hop on a call together.

Free consultations with Hashicorp Consul experts: Get guidance from our architects on an occasional basis.

PROCESS

How it works?

It's simple!

You tell us about your Hashicorp Consul needs + important details.

We turn it into a work plan (before work starts).

A Hashicorp Consul expert starts working with you! 🚀

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Small Hashicorp Consul optimizations, or a full Hashicorp Consul implementation - Our Hashicorp Consul Consulting & Hands-on Service covers it all.

We can start with a quick brainstorming session to discuss your needs around Hashicorp Consul.

1

Hashicorp Consul Requirements Discussion

Meet & discuss the existing system, and the desired result after implementing the Hashicorp Consul Solution.

2

Hashicorp Consul Solution Overview

Meet & Review the proposed solutions, the trade-offs, and modify the Hashicorp Consul implementation plan based on your inputs.

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Match with the Hashicorp Consul Expert

Based on the proposed Hashicorp Consul solution, we match you with the most suitable Hashicorp Consul expert from our team.

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Hashicorp Consul Implementation

The Hashicorp Consul expert starts working with your team to implement the solution, consulting you and doing the hands-on work at every step.

FEATURES

What's included in our Hashicorp Consul Consulting Service?

Your time is precious, so we perfected our Hashicorp Consul Consulting Service with everything you need!

🤓 A Hashicorp Consul Expert consulting you

We hired 7 engineers out of every 1,000 engineers we vetted, so you can enjoy the help of the top 0.7% of Hashicorp Consul experts out there

🧵 A custom Hashicorp Consul solution suitable to your company

Our flexibile process ensures a custom Hashicorp Consul work plan that is based on your requirements

🕰️ Pay-as-you-go

You can use as much hours as you'd like:
Zero, a hundred, or a thousand!
It's completely flexible.

🖐️ A Hashicorp Consul Expert doing hands-on work with you

Our Hashicorp Consul Consulting service extends beyond just planning and consulting, as the same person consulting you joins your team and implements the recommendation by doing hands-on work

👁️ Perspective on how other companies use Hashicorp Consul

Our Hashicorp Consul experts have worked with many different companies, seeing multiple Hashicorp Consul implementations, and are able to provide perspective on the possible solutions for your Hashicorp Consul setup

🧠 Complementary Architect's input on Hashicorp Consul design and implementation decisions

On top of a Hashicorp Consul expert, an Architect from our team joins discussions to provide advice and factor enrich the discussions about the Hashicorp Consul work plan
What Our Clients Say

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Nguyen is a champ. He's fast and has great communication. Well done!

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Embie
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Working with MeteorOps was exactly the solution we looked for. We met a professional, involved, problem solving DevOps team, that gave us an impact in a short term period.

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Optival
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Thanks to MeteorOps, infrastructure changes have been completed without any errors. They provide excellent ideas, manage tasks efficiently, and deliver on time. They communicate through virtual meetings, email, and a messaging app. Overall, their experience in Kubernetes and AWS is impressive.

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Erisyon
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You guys are really a bunch of talented geniuses and it's a pleasure and a privilege to work with you.

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I was impressed at how quickly they were able to handle new tasks at a high quality and value.

Joseph Chen
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FairwayHealth
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They are very knowledgeable in their area of expertise.

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Bitwise MnM
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Good consultants execute on task and deliver as planned. Better consultants overdeliver on their tasks. Great consultants become full technology partners and provide expertise beyond their scope.
I am happy to call MeteorOps my technology partners as they overdelivered, provide high-level expertise and I recommend their services as a very happy customer.

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Infrastructure Lead
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HourOne AI
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I was impressed with the amount of professionalism, communication, and speed of delivery.

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Software Team Lead
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Skyline Robotics
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We got to meet Michael from MeteorOps through one of our employees. We needed DevOps help and guidance and Michael and the team provided all of it from the very beginning. They did everything from dev support to infrastructure design and configuration to helping during Production incidents like any one of our own employees. They actually became an integral part of our organization which says a lot about their personal attitude and dedication.

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VP R&D
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From my experience, working with MeteorOps brings high value to any company at almost any stage. They are uncompromising professionals, who achieve their goal no matter what.

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CEO
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Gefen Technologies AI
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They have been great at adjusting and improving as we have worked together.

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CTO
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Jaide Health
THE FULL PICTURE

You need A Hashicorp Consul Expert who knows other stuff as well

Your company needs an expert that knows more than just Hashicorp Consul.
Here are some of the tools our team is experienced with.

success stories and proven results

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USEFUL INFO

A bit about Hashicorp Consul

Things you need to know about Hashicorp Consul before using any Hashicorp Consul Consulting company

What is Hashicorp Consul?

HashiCorp Consul is a popular service mesh technology that provides service discovery, health checking, load balancing, and other features for distributed applications. Service mesh technology is a way to manage the communication between services in a distributed application, allowing developers to easily implement complex communication patterns, such as service-to-service authentication, traffic routing, and encryption, among others.

Consul works by creating a registry of all the services in a distributed application, allowing each service to discover and communicate with each other, regardless of where they are deployed. This helps to eliminate the need for hard-coded service discovery mechanisms, which can be brittle and difficult to manage.

Consul also provides advanced features like multi-data center support, service segmentation, and observability, which can help developers to better understand and manage their distributed applications. For example, developers can use Consul to route traffic between services based on a variety of factors, including service health, response time, and other metrics.

Overall, Consul is a powerful service mesh technology that can help developers to build, deploy, and manage distributed applications more effectively and efficiently.

What is Service Mesh?

Service mesh technology is a networking layer that facilitates communication between services in a distributed system. It simplifies the task of managing the underlying network infrastructure, allowing developers to focus on building and deploying applications without worrying about the complexities of network management. Service mesh also provides advanced security features such as traffic monitoring and encryption, ensuring the system is resilient and safeguarded against malicious attacks.

Why use Service Mesh?

Here are some reasons to use tools in the service mesh category:

  • Simplifies the management of networking infrastructure in a distributed system.
  • Provides advanced security features such as traffic monitoring and encryption.
  • Enables features like service discovery, load balancing, and traffic routing.
  • Enhances observability through detailed metrics and monitoring capabilities.
  • Increases resilience by enabling fault tolerance and handling network disruptions seamlessly.
  • Facilitates the adoption of microservices architecture and helps in deploying them at scale.
  • Offers platform independence and works with various languages and platforms.
  • Reduces development and maintenance costs by abstracting away the underlying infrastructure.

Why use Hashicorp Consul?

Here are some key reasons to use Consul:

  • Consul enables service discovery, providing a registry of all services in a distributed application and enabling communication between them.
  • Consul provides health checking, continuously monitoring the health of services and alerting the system if a service becomes unavailable.
  • Consul offers load balancing, balancing traffic between services based on various factors.
  • Consul provides multi-datacenter support, allowing Consul to be used across multiple datacenters and enabling distributed applications to scale and operate globally.
  • Consul offers service segmentation, segmenting services based on different criteria to enable developers to better manage traffic and security between services.
  • Consul provides observability, offering advanced monitoring and observability features to help developers understand and optimize the performance of their distributed applications.
  • Consul integrates seamlessly with other HashiCorp products like Vault and Nomad, allowing developers to build and manage entire application infrastructure stacks using HashiCorp tools.
  • Consul offers robust clustering capabilities, allowing it to scale horizontally to handle large and complex distributed applications.
  • Consul is a widely used and popular tool with a large community and support ecosystem, meaning that developers can easily find resources and support for using it in their applications.

Why get our help with Hashicorp Consul?

Tackling service-mesh challenges and solving them using Pulumi gave use the opportunity to accumulate knowledge, tools, and processes that speed up each project we do with Consul.

Here are some of the things we did with HashiCorp Consul:

  • Deployed highly available Consul clusters on AWS using Terraform and Ansible
  • Deployed Consul clusters on Kubernetes using Helm
  • Used Consul as the Service Mesh solution for Kubernetes services
  • Created backups for Consul's KV store
  • Debugged and resolved various Consul issues (Such as Agents ID duplication, Lost leadership errors, etc)
  • Monitored Hashicorp Consul clusters using Prometheus, Graphite, InfluxDB and Grafana.
  • Optimized high-scale Consul clusters for performance by tweaking the servers' and agents' configuration
  • Used Consul as the storage backend for Hashicorp Vault clusters
  • Used Consul for gradually upgrading services and testing pre-production services with production traffic
  • Created active-active Consul architectures for quick failovers in case of a cluster corruption

How can we help you with Hashicorp Consul?

Our experience with HashiCorp allowed us to accumulate the knowledge, tools, and processes needed to help you with the following:

  • Deployment of highly available Consul clusters on AWS using Terraform and Ansible.
  • Deployment of Consul clusters on Kubernetes using Helm.
  • Utilization of Consul as the Service Mesh solution for Kubernetes services.
  • Creation of backups for Consul's Key-Value (KV) store.
  • Debugging and resolution of various Consul issues, such as Agent ID duplication and Lost leadership errors.
  • Monitoring of HashiCorp Consul clusters using Prometheus, Graphite, InfluxDB, and Grafana.
  • Optimization of high-scale Consul clusters for performance by tweaking the servers' and agents' configuration.
  • Use of Consul as the storage backend for HashiCorp Vault clusters.
  • Management of service upgrades using Consul for gradual rollouts and testing pre-production services with production traffic.
  • Creation of active-active Consul architectures for quick failovers in case of a cluster corruption.