puppet-consul

Compatibility

Consul Version	Recommended Puppet Module Version
>= 0.6.0	latest
0.5.x	1.0.3
0.4.x	0.4.6
0.3.x	0.3.0

What This Module Affects

• Installs the consul daemon (via url or package)
  • If installing from zip, you must ensure the unzip utility is available.
• Optionally installs a user to run it under
• Installs a configuration file (/etc/consul/config.json)
• Manages the consul service via upstart, sysv, or systemd
• Optionally installs the Web UI

Usage

To set up a single consul server, with several agents attached: On the server:

class { '::consul':
  config_hash => {
    'bootstrap_expect' => 1,
    'data_dir'         => '/opt/consul',
    'datacenter'       => 'east-aws',
    'log_level'        => 'INFO',
    'node_name'        => 'server',
    'server'           => true,
  }
}

On the agent(s):

class { '::consul':
  config_hash => {
    'data_dir'   => '/opt/consul',
    'datacenter' => 'east-aws',
    'log_level'  => 'INFO',
    'node_name'  => 'agent',
    'retry_join' => ['172.16.0.1'],
  }
}

Disable install and service components:

class { '::consul':
  install_method => 'none',
  init_style     => false,
  manage_service => false,
  config_hash => {
    'data_dir'   => '/opt/consul',
    'datacenter' => 'east-aws',
    'log_level'  => 'INFO',
    'node_name'  => 'agent',
    'retry_join' => ['172.16.0.1'],
  }
}

Web UI

To install and run the Web UI on the server, include ui_dir in the config_hash. You may also want to change the client_addr to 0.0.0.0 from the default 127.0.0.1, for example:

class { '::consul':
  config_hash => {
    'bootstrap_expect' => 1,
    'client_addr'      => '0.0.0.0',
    'data_dir'         => '/opt/consul',
    'datacenter'       => 'east-aws',
    'log_level'        => 'INFO',
    'node_name'        => 'server',
    'server'           => true,
    'ui_dir'           => '/opt/consul/ui',
  }
}

For more security options, consider leaving the client_addr set to 127.0.0.1 and use with a reverse proxy:

$aliases = ['consul', 'consul.example.com']

# Reverse proxy for Web interface
include 'nginx'

$server_names = [$::fqdn, $aliases]

nginx::resource::vhost { $::fqdn:
  proxy       => 'http://localhost:8500',
  server_name => $server_names,
}

Service Definition

To declare the availability of a service, you can use the service define. This will register the service through the local consul client agent and optionally configure a health check to monitor its availability.

::consul::service { 'redis':
  checks  => [
    {
      script   => '/usr/local/bin/check_redis.py',
      interval => '10s'
    }
  ],
  port    => 6379,
  tags    => ['master']
}

See the service.pp docstrings for all available inputs.

You can also use consul::services which accepts a hash of services, and makes it easy to declare in hiera. For example:

consul::services:
  service1:
    address: "%{::ipaddress}"
    checks:
      - http: http://localhost:42/status
        interval: 5s
    port: 42
    tags:
      - "foo:%{::bar}"
  service2:
    address: "%{::ipaddress}"
    checks:
      - http: http://localhost:43/status
        interval: 5s
    port: 43
    tags:
      - "foo:%{::baz}"

Watch Definitions

::consul::watch { 'my_watch':
  handler     => 'handler_path',
  passingonly => true,
  service     => 'serviceName',
  service_tag => 'serviceTagName',
  type        => 'service',
}

See the watch.pp docstrings for all available inputs.

You can also use consul::watches which accepts a hash of watches, and makes it easy to declare in hiera.

Check Definitions

::consul::check { 'true_check':
  interval => '30s',
  script   => '/bin/true',
}

See the check.pp docstrings for all available inputs.

You can also use consul::checks which accepts a hash of checks, and makes it easy to declare in hiera.

Removing Service, Check and Watch definitions

Do ensure => absent while removing existing service, check and watch definitions. This ensures consul will be reloaded via SIGHUP. If you have purge_config_dir set to true and simply remove the definition it will cause consul to restart.

ACL Definitions

consul_acl { 'ctoken':
  ensure => 'present',
  rules  => {'key' => {'test' => {'policy' => 'read'}}},
  type   => 'client',
}

Do not use duplicate names, and remember that the ACL ID (a read-only property for this type) is used as the token for requests, not the name

Optionally, you may supply an acl_api_token. This will allow you to create ACLs if the anonymous token doesn't permit ACL changes (which is likely). The api token may be the master token, another management token, or any client token with sufficient privileges.

Limitations

Depends on the JSON gem, or a modern ruby. (Ruby 1.8.7 is not officially supported)

Consul Template

Consul Template is a piece of software to dynamically write out config files using templates that are populated with values from Consul. This module does not configure consul template. See gdhbashton/consul_template for a module that can do that.

Development

Open an issue or fork and open a Pull Request