Announcing HashiCorp Consul 1.8

HashiCorp Consul 1.8 has been released in public beta, featuring new enterprise features such as identity-based authentication and audit logging capabilities to support compliance requirements. The release includes Ingress Gateway and Terminating Gateway capabilities that enable incremental migration towards a service mesh architecture without requiring explicit networking overrides or additional service capacity. WAN Federation over Mesh Gateway simplifies multi-cluster and multi-datacenter Consul environments by sending all cross-environment traffic through the Mesh Gateways instead of requiring all Consul servers to be exposed across networks. Audit Logging provides a way for security administrators to capture all user actions made in a Consul cluster, while Single Sign-On enables operators to delegate identity authentication to browser-enabled SSO providers to allow users to self-serve ACL tokens to manage constructs within Consul. The release is available for public beta now, with general availability to follow.