consul installation

This role can be used to install consul and consul-template

Notice that it will not create any configuration files, but just install the binaries and create startup scripts and default files. The service is not enabled by default.

Requirements

The target machine must have unzip installed.

Role Variables

There is one main variable that drives this role: _consul. It is a map that contains all configuration and settings for this role. Please see defaults/main.yml for details.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

The general contract of this role is to take the variables map _consul from defaults/main.yml as a template for your configuration and pass that configuration as a parameter to this role.

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

- hosts: servers
  var:
    CONSUL:
      ...
  roles:
     - { role: consul, tags: [ 'consul' ], _consul: "{{ CONSUL }}" }

License

Please see LICENSE.

Author Information

Original author is Daniel Schneller as member of the Rheinwerk project.