Comparison

Consul vs Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

On the evidence we track, Consul leads this comparison with a composite score of 66/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Consul full profile →Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh full profile →

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★Consul66

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh51

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	ConsulLeader	Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Vioscale score	66 / 100medium · 51%	51 / 100low · 26%
Pricing
Modelpricing.model	commercial	commercial
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	-	8
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	✓	✓
Iso27001security.iso27001	✓	-
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	7.5	-
Soc2security.soc2	✓	-
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fhashicorp%2Fconsul%2Fapi&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0	-
Reliability
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	✓
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	67,699	-
Github starsadoption.github_stars	30,043	-
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	23	-
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	8	-
Historyrelease.history	20 items	-
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	Go	-

Score

Vioscale score

Consul66 / 100medium · 51%

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh51 / 100low · 26%

Pricing

Model

Consulcommercial

Red Hat OpenShift Service Meshcommercial

Integrations

Count

Consul–

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh8

Security

Disclosure policy

Consul✓

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh✓

Iso27001

Consul✓

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh–

Scorecard

Consul7.5

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh–

Soc2

Consul✓

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh–

Vulnerabilities

ConsulCount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fhashicorp%2Fconsul%2Fapi&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh–

Reliability

Status page

Consul✓

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh✓

Adoption

Dependent repos

Consul67,699

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh–

Github stars

Consul30,043

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh–

Activity

Commits last 30d

Consul23

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh–

Release

Cadence days

Consul8

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh–

History

Consul20 items

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh–

Language

Primary

ConsulGo

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh–

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for service mesh. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capability comparison for Service Mesh
Capability	Consul	Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Architecture
Data plane	Sidecar	Sidecar
Proxy	-	Envoy
Security
Automatic mutual TLS	✓	✓
SPIFFE / SPIRE identity	-	-
Traffic
Traffic splitting / canary	-	✓
Fault injection / resilience	-	-
Scale
Multi-cluster federation	✓	✓
Portability
VM support (beyond Kubernetes)	✓	-
Observability
Built-in observability	✓	✓
Standards
Gateway API / GAMMA support	✓	-
Extensibility
WASM extensibility	-	-
Compliance
FIPS mode	-	-
Ecosystem
CNCF maturity	-	-
Ops
Commercial support / enterprise edition	✓	✓

Architecture

Data plane

ConsulSidecar

Red Hat OpenShift Service MeshSidecar

Proxy

Consul-

Red Hat OpenShift Service MeshEnvoy

Security

Automatic mutual TLS

Consul✓

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh✓

SPIFFE / SPIRE identity

Consul-

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-

Traffic

Traffic splitting / canary

Consul-

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh✓

Fault injection / resilience

Consul-

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-

Scale

Multi-cluster federation

Consul✓

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh✓

Portability

VM support (beyond Kubernetes)

Consul✓

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-

Observability

Built-in observability

Consul✓

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh✓

Standards

Gateway API / GAMMA support

Consul✓

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-

Extensibility

WASM extensibility

Consul-

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-

Compliance

FIPS mode

Consul-

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-

Ecosystem

CNCF maturity

Consul-

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-

Ops

Commercial support / enterprise edition

Consul✓

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh✓

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Consul

Leader

Consul provides service mesh, service discovery, API gateway, health checking, and dynamic configuration management for applications across distributed infrastructure. Available in open-source and enterprise editions.

Independently observed

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

Not documented yet.

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Consul	Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
macOSPlatforms	✓	✗
WindowsPlatforms	✓	✗
LinuxPlatforms	✓	✗
CLIPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✓
On-premiseDeployment	✓	✓

Platforms

macOS

Consul✓

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh✗

Windows

Consul✓

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh✗

Linux

Consul✓

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh✗

CLI

Consul✓

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Consul✓

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh✓

Self-hosted

Consul✓

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh✓

On-premise

Consul✓

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Consul

Leader

Not documented yet.

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

8 total

Istio
Envoy
Kiali
Red Hat Connectivity Link
Red Hat OpenShift Observability
cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift Gitops
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.