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Ansible Consul Role

consul is an ansible role which:

  • installs consul
  • configures consul
  • installs consul ui
  • configures consul ui
  • optionally installs dnsmasq
  • optionally install consulate
  • configures consul service(s)

Installation

Using ansible-galaxy:

$ ansible-galaxy install pheromone.consul

Using arm (Ansible Role Manager):

$ arm install pheromone.ansible-consul

Using git:

$ git clone https://github.com/Pheromone/ansible-consul.git

Variables

Here is a list of all the default variables for this role, which are also available in defaults/main.yml.

# default version and download locations
consul_version: 0.3.1
consul_archive: "{{ consul_version }}_linux_amd64.zip"
consul_ui_archive: "{{ consul_version }}_web_ui.zip"
consul_download: "https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/consul/{{ consul_archive }}"
consul_ui_download: "https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/consul/{{ consul_ui_archive }}"
# default directories
consul_download_folder: /tmp
consul_home: /opt/consul
consul_config_dir: /etc/consul.d
consul_config_file: /etc/consul.conf
consul_log_file: /var/log/consul
consul_data_dir: "{{ consul_home }}/data"
consul_ui_dir: "{{ consul_home }}/dist"
consul_binary: consul
# default settings
consul_user: consul
consul_group: consul
# configure consul as a server
consul_is_server: "false"
# configure consul as a ui
consul_is_ui: "false"
# configure consul to start in bootstrap mode
consul_bootstrap: "false"
# configure service
consul_servers: ['127.0.0.1']
consul_log_level: "INFO"
consul_rejoin_after_leave: "true"

An instance might be defined through:

# enable ui
consul_is_ui: "true"
# start as a server
consul_is_server: "true"
# name datacenter
consul_datacenter: "test"
# bootstrap
consul_bootstrap: "true"
# name the node
consul_node_name: "vagrant"
# bind to ip
consul_bind_address: "{{ ansible_default_ipv4['address'] }}"

Handlers

These are the handlers that are defined in handlers/main.yml.

  • restart consul
  • restart dnsmasq

Example playbook

---

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - ansible-consul
  vars:
    consul_is_ui: "true"
    consul_is_server: "true"
    consul_datacenter: "test"
    consul_bootstrap: "true"
    consul_node_name: "vagrant"
    consul_bind_address: "{{ ansible_default_ipv4['address'] }}"

Testing

$ git clone https://github.com/jivesoftware/ansible-consul.git
$ cd ansible-consul
$ vagrant up

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests and examples for any new or changed functionality.

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request

License

Copyright (c) Jive Software under the Apache license.

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