HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure has entered public beta, allowing users to provision managed Consul clusters directly through the Azure Marketplace and leverage its service discovery and service mesh features in their Azure Kubernetes Service or VM-based application environments. The service offers a fully managed networking solution that enables secure service networking across all AKS and VM-based application environments by offloading provisioning, management, and upgrades of the Consul control plane to HashiCorp. The public beta includes several security-related enhancements, such as configurable CIDR ranges, ACL bootstrapping, and elimination of public IP addresses, which were informed by feedback from private beta customers. Users can access HCS on Azure through the Azure Marketplace or by registering for a webinar, and get started with guides and resources available in the HashiCorp Learn platform.