consul-cookbook

Installs and configures Consul client, server and UI.

Supported Platforms

• CentOS 5.10, 6.5, 7.0
• RHEL 5.10, 6.5, 7.0
• Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, 14.04

Attributes

<table>
<tr>
<th>Key</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Default</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['version']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Version to install</td>
<td><tt>0.4.1</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['base_url']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Base URL for binary downloads</td>
<td><tt>https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/consul/</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['encrypt']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Encryption string for consul cluster.</td>
<td><tt>nil</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['install_method']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Method to install consul with when using default recipe: binary or source</td>
<td><tt>binary</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['install_dir']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Directory to install binary to.</td>
<td><tt>/usr/local/bin</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['service_mode']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Mode to run consul as: bootstrap, cluster, server, or client</td>
<td><tt>bootstrap</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['bootstrap_expect']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>When bootstrapping a cluster, the number of server nodes to expect.</td>
<td><tt>nil</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['data_dir']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Location to store consul's data in</td>
<td><tt>/var/lib/consul</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['config_dir']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Location to read service definitions from (directoy will be created)</td>
<td><tt>/etc/consul.d</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['servers']</tt></td>
<td>Array Strings</td>
<td>Consul servers to join</td>
<td><tt>[]</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['retry_on_join']</tt></td>
<td>Boolean</td>
<td>Set to true to wait for servers to be up before try to elect a leader</td>
<td><tt>false</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['bind_addr']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>address that should be bound to for internal cluster communications</td>
<td><tt>0.0.0.0</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['datacenter']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Name of Datacenter</td>
<td><tt>dc1</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['domain']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Domain for service lookup dns queries</td>
<td><tt>.consul</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['enable_syslog']</tt></td>
<td>Boolean</td>
<td>enables logging to syslog</td>
<td><tt>nil</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['log_level']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>
The level of logging to show after the Consul agent has started.
Available: "trace", "debug", "info", "warn", "err"
</td>
<td><tt>info</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['node_name']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>The name of this node in the cluster</td>
<td>hostname of the machine</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['advertise_addr']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>address that we advertise to other nodes in the cluster</td>
<td>Value of <i>bind_addr</i></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['init_style']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Service init mode for running consul as: init or runit</td>
<td><tt>init</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['service_user']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>For runit service: run consul as this user (init uses 'root')</td>
<td><tt>consul</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['service_group']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>For runit service: run consul as this group (init uses 'root')</td>
<td><tt>consul</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['bind_interface']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>
Interface to bind to, such as 'eth1'. Sets bind_addr
attribute to the IP of the specified interface if it exists.
</td>
<td><tt>nil</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['advertise_interface']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>
Interface to advertise, such as 'eth1'. Sets advertise_addr
attribute to the IP of the specified interface if it exists.
</td>
<td><tt>nil</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['extra_params']</tt></td>
<td>hash</td>
<td>
Pass a hash of extra params to the default.json config file
</td>
<td><tt>{}</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['encrypt_enabled']</tt></td>
<td>Boolean</td>
<td>
To enable Consul gossip encryption
</td>
<td><tt>false</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['verify_incoming']</tt></td>
<td>Boolean</td>
<td>
If set to True, Consul requires that all incoming connections make use of TLS.
</td>
<td><tt>false</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['verify_outgoing']</tt></td>
<td>Boolean</td>
<td>
If set to True, Consul requires that all outgoing connections make use of TLS.
</td>
<td><tt>false</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['key_file']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>
The content of PEM encoded private key
</td>
<td><tt>nil</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['key_file_path']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>
Path where the private key is stored on the disk
</td>
<td><tt>/etc/consul.d/key.pem</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['ca_file']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>
The content of PEM encoded ca cert
</td>
<td><tt>nil</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['ca_file_path']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>
Path where ca is stored on the disk
</td>
<td><tt>/etc/consul.d/ca.pem</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['cert_file']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>
The content of PEM encoded cert. It should only contain the public key.
</td>
<td><tt>nil</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['cert_file_path']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>
Path where cert is stored on the disk
</td>
<td><tt>/etc/consul.d/cert.pem</tt></td>
</tr>
</table>

Databag Attributes (optional)

Following attributes, if exist in the encrypted databag, override the node attributes

<table>
<tr>
<th>Key</th>
<th>Databag item</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>key_file</tt></td>
<td>['consul']['encrypt']</td>
<td>String</td>
<td>The content of PEM encoded private key</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>key_file_{fqdn}</tt></td>
<td>['consul']['encrypt']</td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Node's(identified by fqdn) unique PEM encoded private key. If it exists, it will override the databag and node key_file attribute</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>ca_file</tt></td>
<td>['consul']['encrypt']</td>
<td>String</td>
<td>The content of PEM encoded ca cert</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>encrypt</tt></td>
<td>['consul']['encrypt']</td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Consul Gossip encryption key</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>cert_file</tt></td>
<td>['consul']['encrypt']</td>
<td>String</td>
<td>The content of PEM encoded cert</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>cert_file_{fqdn}</tt></td>
<td>['consul']['encrypt']</td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Node's(identified by fqdn) unique PEM encoded cert. If it exists, it will override the databag and node cert_file attribute</td>
</tr>
</table>

Consul UI Attributes

<table>
<tr>
<th>Key</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Default</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['client_address']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>Address to bind to</td>
<td><tt>0.0.0.0</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['client_interface']</tt></td>
<td>String</td>
<td>
Interface to advertise, such as 'eth1'. Sets advertise_addr
attribute to the IP of the specified interface if it exists.
</td>
<td><tt>nil</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>['consul']['serve_ui']</tt></td>
<td>Boolean</td>
<td>Determines whether the consul service also serve's the UI</td>
<td><tt>false</tt></td>
</tr>
</table>

Usage

The easiest way to bootstrap a cluster is to use the cluster recipe
and use Chef provisioning which is a relatively new
extension. This extension allows you to use any driver and easily
stand up a cluster. Once the Chef Development Kit has been
installed you can run the following command to provision a cluster.

gem install chef-provisioning chef-provisioning-fog
export CHEF_DRIVER=fog:AWS
chef-client -z cluster.rb

Please follow the Chef provisioning README which provides more
detailed information about provisioning. You'll need to configure
your credentials prior to provisioning.

consul::default

The default recipe will install the Consul agent using the
consul::install_binary recipe. It will also configure and
start consul at the machine boot.

consul::install_binary

If you only wish to simply install the binary from the official
mirror you simply include consul::install_binary in your node's
run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[consul::install_binary]"
  ]
}

consul::install_source

Instead if you wish to install Consul from source you simply need
to include consul::install_source in your node's run_list. This
will also configure the Go language framework on the node to build
the application.

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[consul::install_source]"
  ]
}

consul::ui

Installing the separate Consul UI simply requires you to include
the consul::ui recipe in your node's run_list.

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[consul::ui]"
  ]
}

LWRP

Adding key watch

consul_key_watch_def 'key-watch-name' do
  key "/key/path"
  handler "chef-client"
end

Adding event watch

consul_event_watch_def 'event-name' do
  handler "chef-client"
end

Adding service watch

consul_service_watch_def 'service-name' do
      passingonly true
  handler "chef-client"
end

Adding service without check

consul_service_def 'voice1' do
  port 5060
  tags ['_sip._udp']
  notifies :reload, 'service[consul]'
end

Adding service with check

consul_service_def 'voice1' do
  port 5060
  tags ['_sip._udp']
  check(
    interval: '10s',
    script: 'echo ok'
  )
  notifies :reload, 'service[consul]'
end

Removing service

consul_service_def 'voice1' do
  action :delete
  notifies :reload, 'service[consul]'
end

Be sure to notify the Consul resource to restart when your service def changes.

Getting Started

To bootstrap a consul cluster follow the following steps:
0. Make sure that ports 8300-8302 (by default, if you configured different ones open those) UDP/TCP are all open.
1. Bootstrap a few (preferablly 3 nodes) to be your consul servers, these will be the KV masters.
2. Put node['consul']['servers'] =["Array of the bootstrapped servers ips or dns names"] in your environment.
3. Apply the consul cookbook to these nodes with node['consul']['service_mode'] = 'cluster' (I put this in this in a CONSUL_MASTER role).
4. Let these machines converge, once you can run consul members and get a list of all of the servers your ready to move on
5. Apply the consul cookbook to the rest of your nodes with node['consul']['service_mode'] = 'client' (I put this in the environment)
6. Start added services and checks to your cookbooks.
7. If you want to get values out of consul to power your chef, curl localhost:8500/v1/kv/key/path?raw in your cookbook.

Authors

Created and maintained by John Bellone @johnbellone (jbellone@bloomberg.net) and a growing community of contributors.