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Yeah, this appears to be accomplishing the same purpose as the 'Terragrunt' wrapper which uses DynamoDB for locking state IIRC https://github.com/gruntwork-io/terragrunt

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If using the S3 remote state backend, Terraform itself has supported this with no wrapper for quite some time now.

Doesn’t the consul backend support this as well?

Several do - I'm not sure which offhand though. The docs for each backend (e.g. [1]) explain what is supported.

[1]: https://www.terraform.io/docs/backends/types/azurerm.html

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