The new global management plane for Consul is now available as a free public beta, offering full visibility and control for both self-managed and HashiCorp-managed Consul clusters. This feature provides benefits such as quick bootstrapping of Kubernetes clusters, viewing health status of all Consul clusters in a single view, and discovering all services registered with the Consul clusters. The public beta focuses on two key features: global service catalog search and version labels, allowing users to quickly discover and reuse services across clusters, and determine whether their deployed Consul clusters are within the Consul version support policy. Interested parties can try the new HCP Consul management plane now at no cost with a $50 credit available for those who want to get up and running for free.