Formula to install and configure Hashicorp Consul.

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Installs and configures the Consul service.

Downloads and installs the Consul binary file.

Provision the Consul configuration files and sources.

Adds the Consul service startup configuration or script to an operating system.

To start a service during Salt run and enable it at boot time, you need to set following Pillar:

consul:
  service: true

Installs and configures Consul template.

Linux testing is done with kitchen-salt.

• Ruby
• Docker

$ gem install bundler
$ bundle install
$ bin/kitchen test [platform]

Where [platform] is the platform name defined in kitchen.yml, e.g. debian-9-2019-2-py3.

Creates the docker instance and runs the consul main state, ready for testing.

Runs the inspec tests on the actual instance.

Removes the docker instance.

Runs all of the stages above in one go: i.e. destroy + converge + verify + destroy.

Gives you SSH access to the instance for manual testing.

Windows/FreeBSD/OpenBSD testing is done with kitchen-salt.

• Ruby
• Virtualbox
• Vagrant

$ gem install bundler
$ bundle install --with=vagrant
$ bin/kitchen test [platform]

Where [platform] is the platform name defined in kitchen.vagrant.yml, e.g. windows-81-latest-py3.

When testing using Vagrant you must set the environment variable KITCHEN_LOCAL_YAML to kitchen.vagrant.yml. For example:

$ KITCHEN_LOCAL_YAML=kitchen.vagrant.yml bin/kitchen test      # Alternatively,
$ export KITCHEN_LOCAL_YAML=kitchen.vagrant.yml
$ bin/kitchen test

Then run the following commands as needed.

Creates the Vagrant instance and runs the salt main states, ready for testing.

Runs the inspec tests on the actual instance.

Removes the Vagrant instance.

Runs all of the stages above in one go: i.e. destroy + converge + verify + destroy.

Gives you RDP/SSH access to the instance for manual testing.