HashiCorp's Consul was a key focus at HashiConf 2023, with sessions covering practical advice on leveraging Consul for cloud migration and hybrid infrastructure expansion, delivering robust microservice review app functionality through service mesh, and enhancing observability features to monitor and debug distributed services. The event highlighted the growing trend of multi-cloud workloads, emphasizing the importance of networking tools like Consul in simplifying application network management without explicit infrastructure handling. Key announcements included upgrades to simplified workflow management, reliability, scale, and security for service networking, as well as new security lifecycle management capabilities.