The world is moving from static infrastructure to dynamic infrastructure. The static world is defined by a single service running on a single machine in a private datacenter that doesn't change for months at a time. In a dynamic world there are many services changing multiple times per day deployed across many machines in public and private datacenters. The shift from static to dynamic forces the four components of infrastructure automation change — provisioning, security, runtime, and networking. HashiCorp Consul is a distributed service networking layer to connect, secure and configure applications across dynamic distributed infrastructure.