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consul

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Formula to install and configure Hashicorp Consul.

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General notes

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Special notes

None.

Available states

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consul ^^^^^^^^^^

Installs and configures the Consul service.

consul.install ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Downloads and installs the Consul binary file.

consul.config ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Provision the Consul configuration files and sources.

consul.service ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Adds the Consul service startup configuration or script to an operating system.

To start a service during Salt run and enable it at boot time, you need to set following Pillar:

.. code:: yaml

consul:
  service: true

consul-template ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Installs and configures Consul template.

Testing

Linux testing is done with kitchen-salt.

Requirements ^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Ruby
• Docker

.. code-block:: bash

$ gem install bundler $ bundle install $ bin/kitchen test [platform]

Where [platform] is the platform name defined in kitchen.yml, e.g. debian-9-2019-2-py3.

bin/kitchen converge ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Creates the docker instance and runs the consul main state, ready for testing.

bin/kitchen verify ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Runs the inspec tests on the actual instance.

bin/kitchen destroy ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Removes the docker instance.

bin/kitchen test ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Runs all of the stages above in one go: i.e. destroy + converge + verify + destroy.

bin/kitchen login ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Gives you SSH access to the instance for manual testing.

Testing with Vagrant

Windows/FreeBSD/OpenBSD testing is done with kitchen-salt.

Requirements ^^^^^^^^^^^^

• Ruby
• Virtualbox
• Vagrant

Setup ^^^^^

.. code-block:: bash

$ gem install bundler $ bundle install --with=vagrant $ bin/kitchen test [platform]

Where [platform] is the platform name defined in kitchen.vagrant.yml, e.g. windows-81-latest-py3.

Note ^^^^

When testing using Vagrant you must set the environment variable KITCHEN_LOCAL_YAML to kitchen.vagrant.yml. For example:

.. code-block:: bash

$ KITCHEN_LOCAL_YAML=kitchen.vagrant.yml bin/kitchen test # Alternatively, $ export KITCHEN_LOCAL_YAML=kitchen.vagrant.yml $ bin/kitchen test

Then run the following commands as needed.

bin/kitchen converge ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Creates the Vagrant instance and runs the salt main states, ready for testing.

bin/kitchen verify ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Runs the inspec tests on the actual instance.

bin/kitchen destroy ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Removes the Vagrant instance.

bin/kitchen test ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Runs all of the stages above in one go: i.e. destroy + converge + verify + destroy.

bin/kitchen login ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Gives you RDP/SSH access to the instance for manual testing.

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