benschw / consul-cluster-vagrant

Consul & Confd Cluster Demo

for a full explanation & walk through, check out http://txt.fliglio.com/2014/05/encapsulated-services-with-consul-and-confd/

Here is a 6 node example environment running in Vagrant to demo Consul and Confd.

Look through the Vagrantfile to get an idea of what we're setting up, but essentially we are building:

• 2 consul server agents
• 1 consul agent hosting a "status" web gui
• 2 example service nodes
• 1 demo web-app that will interact with the service

	$ git clone [e-mail]:benschw/consul-cluster-vagrant.git
	$ cd consul-cluster-vagrant
	$ vagrant up

Some notes

• I've included dependencies in the /bin folder, but if you don't trust me the sources are listed below.
• confd is built off of master as consul support won't be baked in until the 0.4 release.
• Each node is wired to use 256mb ram, so this cluster should run OK on most systems. My i7/8gb laptop stays under a load of 1.

repo contents

• bin/consul https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/consul/0.2.0_linux_amd64.zip
• bin/confd https://github.com/kelseyhightower/confd (built off master on May 16, 2014)
• bin/demo (https://github.com/benschw/consul-clb-go)
• web/ https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/consul/0.2.0_web_ui.zip