Consul

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• runs Consul process under dumb-init as a non-root user with the possibity of mapping to an existing user id on host via CONSUL_UID environment variable (inspired by this article);
• ships with curl and monitoring-plugins to use in health checks, as well as jq and consul-cli to use in handlers;

Usage

Development

docker run -it --rm \
           --name consul \
           -p 8500:8500 \
           beyondrepair/consul-container

Custom configuration

docker run -it --rm \
           --name consul \
           -v /path/to/config/:/config \
           -p 8500:8500 \
           beyondrepair/consul

Custom user

Assuming /path/to/config is readable by host user with id 9001

docker run -it --rm \
           --name consul \
           -v /path/to/config/:/config \
           -e CONSUL_UID=9001 \
           -p 8500:8500 \
           beyondrepair/consul