HCP Consul on Microsoft Azure is now generally available, supporting production workloads running on Azure, providing a secure and resilient service mesh for connecting applications in Azure. This announcement marks the latest milestone in the HashiCorp and Microsoft collaboration, offering a fully managed service mesh solution on HashiCorp backed infrastructure. With this release, HCP Consul users can deploy it on Azure Virtual Machines or Azure Kubernetes Service, enabling enterprises to deploy more resilient and secure microservice environments without added operational burden. The launch is part of HashiCorp's goal to be a multi-cloud solution, and HCP Consul on Azure is available for all users with either on-demand hourly consumption or annual deals.