Consul

Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.

etcd. 1 alternatives to Consul, in Go. Compare fit, licence, stars and the latest signed release.

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Tool	Fit	Stars	Licence	Terms	Self-hosted	Language	Latest	Last push
etcd	Partial	52k	Apache-2.0	Open source	Yes	Go	v3.7.2	2026-10-18

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etcd Partial

Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

Raft-backed key-value store with watches and leases, without service discovery or a service mesh.

Language: Go
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 52k
Latest: v3.7.2
Last push: 2026-10-18

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Language: Go
Licence: Other
Stars: 30k
Last push: 2026-10-16

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