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.