sixth / hashicorp-tools-demo

Testing hashicorp tools to create a HA nginx/haproxy cluster

Motivation

Show what a continuous delivery pipeline would look like with hashicorp tools including Consul, Terraform and Packer.

Requirements

• Docker
• Terraform
• Packer

Tools used

Tool	Purpose
consul template	dynamic haproxy config and nginx index file
alpine linux	mostly for disk space. 100-300MB~ on avg

Potentional todos

• Replace HAProxy with fabio / Traefik
• Use registrator to dynamically register containers
• Add more variables

Run commands

$ packer build -var 'app=consul' packer.json
$ packer build -var 'app=haproxy' packer.json
$ packer build -var 'app=nginx' packer.json
$ terraform plan
$ terraform apply

Test URLs

Service	URL
consul	http://127.0.0.1:8500
haproxy	http://127.0.0.1:8001
nginx	http://127.0.0.1:80