Fabio & Consul Demo

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Run Fabio and consul stack on your machine for testing

Requirements

You will need to install docker-engine and docker-compose to run this setup

Run

docker-compose up -d

Stop

docker-compose kill

Delete

docker-compose rm -f

Accessing the ui

consul

http://localhost:8500/

fabio

http://localhost:9998/

register service with consul

The playbook.yaml ansible will register any application to your consul you have to define the following parameters

you will need to install python-consul to use that playbook

• application - The name of the app
• port - the application port
• admin_port - the admin port for the health check
• healthcheck - the health check url
• urlprefix - the routing path for fabio

register the simpleHTTPServer Docker container

ansible-playbook -i hosts ./playbook1.yaml -e application=hello -e port=8080 -e urlprefix=www.spielwie.se/

register a application with health check

ansible-playbook -i hosts ./playbook2.yaml -e application=hello -e port=8080 -e admin_port=9080 -e healthcheck='/system/health?pretty=true' -e urlprefix='www.spielwie.se/'

Now simply add the follwoing line to your /etc/hosts file

127.0.0.1 www.spielwie.se

and test the app in your browser