Home Projects Consul Consul license, foundation and stars Infrastructure and storage · Business Source License 1.1 (source-available) · backed by HashiCorp · 30,110 stars
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Source-available Aug 11, 2023
MPL 2.0 to Business Source License 1.1 HashiCorp moved Consul from MPL 2.0 to the Business Source License with its company-wide change.
Latest release No GitHub releases published; the project releases elsewhere (tags or its own site).
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About and history Repository hashicorp/consul · created Nov 4, 2013 Website consul.io Language Go Foundation None; run by HashiCorp Company HashiCorp · on Companies · on Acquisitions · on awards · on blogs · on certifications · on Attested · on Downtime · on Leaders · on Paydays · on Releases · on TechConf GitHub detects NOASSERTION (a custom or multi-license file; the license above is read from the file itself) Stars per week 4 (GitHub weekly snapshots) Weekly snapshots Week of Bar Stars Nov 9, 2026 30,110 Oct 26, 2026 30,096 Oct 19, 2026 30,088 Oct 5, 2026 30,092 Sep 28, 2026 30,088 Sep 21, 2026 30,081
Changes Stars per week Nov 9, 2026
Gains about 4 stars a week, up from 3. Stars per week Oct 30, 2026
Gains about 3 stars a week, up from 2. Stars per week Oct 20, 2026
Gains about 2 stars a week, down from 6. Stars per week Oct 11, 2026
Gains about 6 stars a week, down from 7. Stars per week Sep 28, 2026
Gains about 7 stars a week. Relicensed Sep 25, 2026
Relicensed from MPL 2.0 to Business Source License 1.1. Tracked Sep 25, 2026
Now tracked, from hashicorp/consul on GitHub.