Consul HashiCorp Service Mesh
Best for Deploys models with autoscaling and comprehensive monitoring.
When not When you need custom inference acceleration.
Consul is a HashiCorp tool for service discovery and dynamic networking. Services register via agent. DNS-based discovery (service-name.service.consul). Integrates with Terraform for IaC. API gateway and ingress controller built-in. Enterprise version adds RBAC and audit logs.
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