consul-cookbook

Installs and configures Consul.

Supported Platforms

• CentOS 5.10, 6.5
• Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04

Attributes

<table>
<tr>
<th>Key</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Default</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['version']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Version to install</td>
<td><tt>0.2.1</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['base_url']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Base URL for binary downloads</td>
<td><tt>https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/consul/</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['install_method']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Method to install consul with when using default recipe: binary or source</td>
<td><tt>binary</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['install_dir']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Directory to install binary to.</td>
<td><tt>/usr/local/bin</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['service_mode']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Mode to run consul as: bootstrap, server, or client</td>
<td><tt>bootstrap</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['data_dir']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Location to store consul's data in</td>
<td><tt>/var/lib/consul</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['config_dir']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Location to read service definitions from (directoy will be created)</td>
<td><tt>/etc/consul.d</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['servers']</tt></td>
<td>Array Strings</td>
<td>Consul servers to join</td>
<td><tt>[]</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['bind_addr']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>address that should be bound to for internal cluster communications</td>
<td><tt>0.0.0.0</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['datacenter']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Name of Datacenter</td>
<td><tt>dc1</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['domain']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Domain for service lookup dns queries</td>
<td><tt>.consul</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['log_level']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>
The level of logging to show after the Consul agent has started.
Available: "trace", "debug", "info", "warn", "err"
</td>
<td><tt>info</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['node_name']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>The name of this node in the cluster</td>
<td>hostname of the machine</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['advertise_addr']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>address that we advertise to other nodes in the cluster</td>
<td>Value of <i>bind_addr</i></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['init_style']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Service init mode for running consul as: init or runit</td>
<td><tt>init</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['service_user']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>For runit service: run consul as this user (init uses 'root')</td>
<td><tt>consul</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['servers']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>For runit service: run consul as this group (init uses 'root')</td>
<td><tt>consul</tt></td>
</tr>
</table>

Consul UI Attributes

<table>
<tr>
<th>Key</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Default</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['client_address']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Address to bind to</td>
<td><tt>0.0.0.0</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['ui_dir']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Location to download the UI to</td>
<td><tt>/var/lib/consul/ui</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['serve_ui']</tt></td>
<td>Boolean</td>
<td>Determines whether the consul service also serve's the UI</td>
<td><tt>false</tt></td>
</tr>
</table>

Usage

consul::default

This uses the binary installation recipe by default. It also starts consul at boot time.

consul::binary_install

Include consul::binary_install in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[consul::binary_install]"
  ]
}

consul::source_install

Include consul::source_install in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[consul::source_install]"
  ]
}

consul::ui

This installs the UI into a specified directory.

Include consul::ui in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[consul::ui]"
  ]
}

Authors

Created and maintained by John Bellone @johnbellone (jbellone@bloomberg.net) and a growing community of contributors.