UNIX Domain Socket support added for connect in parallel to Consul UDS support in v1.10

[jboero]

Proposal

Consul 1.10 is releasing UDS support for services and Connect. Support has been included as of 1.10beta2 release. I've been experimenting with manually registering services like MySQL running on a UDS instead of TCP but this would clearly be useful in Nomad as well.

Consul has added the service option socket_path as alternative to port or ports. Ergo it would be a great paring with Consul if Nomad's service descriptor could support that.

Example:

service {
  name = "count-api"
  port = "9001"

  connect {
    sidecar_service {}
  }
}

service {
  name = "mysql"
  socket_path = "/run/mysqld.sock"

  connect {
    sidecar_service {}
  }
}

[johnalotoski]

This would be great to have.