Consul is a cluster management tool from Hashicorp and it is very useful for creating advanced micro-services architecture. Consul is a distributed configuration system which provides high availability, multi-data center, service discovery and High fault tolerance. So managing micro-services with consul is pretty easy and simple.

This playbook has a script for sample microservice environment provisined with vagrant.

1. Install Vagrant
2. Clone this repo and cd consul_experiment and run vagrant up
3. Download ansible role ansible-galaxy install PrabhuVignesh.consul_installer
4. Uncomment host_key_checking = False from "/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg" for disabling ssh key based auth.
5. Run the playbook from consul_experiment directory ansible-playbook -i inventory consul_playbook.yml

go to your browser and type http://172.28.128.14:8500/ui to see dashboard of consul client

Please follow the article(http://devopscube.com/consul-service-discovery-beginners-guide/) for more detail