HashiCorp has released HashiCorp Consul Service (HCS) on Azure, which provides a "secure by default" configuration for deploying Consul in public cloud environments. This service enables features such as service discovery, secure communication across services with Consul Service Mesh, and dynamic updates to service configurations using familiar tools like Consul-Template. To get started, practitioners can review the HCS on Azure learn guides or proceed directly to the Azure Marketplace, where they can request the HCS environment and join an existing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster to it. The service allows for deploying a Kubernetes-native application onto AKS and configuring a zero-trust security policy around the Kubernetes services using Consul's service mesh capabilities.