# Consul Connect

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/consul-connect/  
**Website:** https://www.consul.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Consul Connect is the service mesh subsystem of HashiCorp Consul. Connect provides service identity, mTLS, traffic authorization via intentions, and L7 traffic management through Envoy sidecar proxies. Consul Connect ships with a built-in certificate authority that can also be backed by Vault or external PKI, supports mesh, terminating, ingress, and API gateways, and spans virtual machines, Kubernetes, AWS ECS, AWS Lambda, and Nomad runtimes. Operators interact with Connect through the consul CLI, the HTTP API, configuration entries, and Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions.

## Kin Score — 33.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 33.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 52.4 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **Consul Connect Configuration Entries** — Consul Connect configuration entries (service-defaults, service-resolver, service-router, service-splitter, service-intentions, mesh, proxy-defaults) that declaratively configur...
- **Consul Connect Gateways** — Consul Connect supports four gateway types for traffic flowing into and out of the mesh: mesh gateways for cross-datacenter and cross-partition traffic, ingress gateways for Nor...
- **Consul Connect CA API** — Certificate authority management
- **Consul Connect Intentions API** — Service-to-service traffic authorization

## Agentic access (1)

- **Consul Connect Agentic Access** — 9 operations · 3 acting

## Security (2)

- **Consul Connect Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Consul Connect Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Consul Connect Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Consul, Envoy, HashiCorp, Intentions, Kubernetes, mTLS, Service Mesh, Sidecar, Zero Trust

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/consul-connect/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.