Consul Release Controller

Consul release controller enables automated Canary and Green / Blue releases of your application using Consul Service Mesh.

Documentation

For information on how to install the release controller and full documentation click here

Why not Flagger / Argo / etc. ?

Consul Release Controller is designed to be cloud and platform agnostic, while it is a great tool to use with Kubernetes it allows a common workflow on any platform supported by Consul such as Nomad, ECS, or Virtual machines. Since Consul Release Controller is specific to consul service mesh it can leverage Consul full capabilities such as cross cloud deployments, or multi-platform canary releases (e.g. migrating applications from on premise VMs to cloud based Nomad or Kubernetes).

Supported platforms [x] currently supported:

• Kubernetes
• Nomad
• ECS
• Virtual machines
• Cross platform deployments (e.g. ECS to Kubernetes, Virtual Machine to Nomad)
• Enterprise feature support

Configuration

The controller can be configured by setting the following environment variables:

TLS_CERT

Path to the TLS certificate file for securing the main restful API.

TLS_KEY

Path to the TLS key file for securing the main restful API.

KUBECONFIG

Path to the kubeconfig file for connecting to the Kubernetes cluster.

CONSUL_HTTP_ADDR

Address of the Consul cluster.

CONSUL_HTTP_TOKEN_FILE

Path to the Consul token file containing a valid ACL token for the Consul cluster

CONSUL_CA_CERT

Path to the CA certificate file for making requests to the Consul cluster.

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