consul

command module
v1.2.4 Latest Latest
Warning

This package is not in the latest version of its module.

Go to latest
Published: Nov 21, 2018 License: MPL-2.0 Imports: 8 Imported by: 2

README

Consul Build Status

Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable.

Consul provides several key features:

  • Service Discovery - Consul makes it simple for services to register themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface. External services such as SaaS providers can be registered as well.

  • Health Checking - Health Checking enables Consul to quickly alert operators about any issues in a cluster. The integration with service discovery prevents routing traffic to unhealthy hosts and enables service level circuit breakers.

  • Key/Value Storage - A flexible key/value store enables storing dynamic configuration, feature flagging, coordination, leader election and more. The simple HTTP API makes it easy to use anywhere.

  • Multi-Datacenter - Consul is built to be datacenter aware, and can support any number of regions without complex configuration.

  • Service Segmentation - Consul Connect enables secure service-to-service communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization.

Consul runs on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windows. A commercial version called Consul Enterprise is also available.

Please note: We take Consul's security and our users' trust very seriously. If you believe you have found a security issue in Consul, please responsibly disclose by contacting us at security@hashicorp.com.

Quick Start

An extensive quick start is viewable on the Consul website:

https://www.consul.io/intro/getting-started/install.html

Documentation

Full, comprehensive documentation is viewable on the Consul website:

https://www.consul.io/docs

Developing Consul

If you wish to work on Consul itself, you'll first need Go installed (version 1.10+ is required). Make sure you have Go properly installed, including setting up your GOPATH.

Next, clone this repository into $GOPATH/src/github.com/hashicorp/consul and then just type make. In a few moments, you'll have a working consul executable:

$ make
...
$ bin/consul
...

Note: make will build all os/architecture combinations. Set the environment variable CONSUL_DEV=1 to build it just for your local machine's os/architecture, or use make dev.

Note: make will also place a copy of the binary in the first part of your $GOPATH.

You can run tests by typing make test. The test suite may fail if over-parallelized, so if you are seeing stochastic failures try GOTEST_FLAGS="-p 2 -parallel 2" make test.

If you make any changes to the code, run make format in order to automatically format the code according to Go standards.

Vendoring

Consul currently uses govendor for vendoring and vendorfmt for formatting vendor.json to a more merge-friendly "one line per package" format.

Documentation

The Go Gopher

There is no documentation for this package.

Directories

Path Synopsis
ae
Package ae provides tools to synchronize state between local and remote consul servers.
Package ae provides tools to synchronize state between local and remote consul servers.
cache
Package cache provides caching features for data from a Consul server.
Package cache provides caching features for data from a Consul server.
cache-types
Code generated by mockery v1.0.0
Code generated by mockery v1.0.0
consul
The snapshot endpoint is a special non-RPC endpoint that supports streaming for taking and restoring snapshots for disaster recovery.
The snapshot endpoint is a special non-RPC endpoint that supports streaming for taking and restoring snapshots for disaster recovery.
proxy
Package proxy contains logic for agent interaction with proxies, primarily "managed" proxies.
Package proxy contains logic for agent interaction with proxies, primarily "managed" proxies.
router
Package servers provides a Manager interface for Manager managed metadata.Server objects.
Package servers provides a Manager interface for Manager managed metadata.Server objects.
kv
rtt
certgen
certgen: a tool for generating test certificates on disk for use as test-fixtures and for end-to-end testing and local development.
certgen: a tool for generating test certificates on disk for use as test-fixtures and for end-to-end testing and local development.
internal module
lib
freeport
Package freeport provides a helper for allocating free ports across multiple processes on the same machine.
Package freeport provides a helper for allocating free ports across multiple processes on the same machine.
proto-public module
sdk module
The archive utilities manage the internal format of a snapshot, which is a tar file with the following contents: meta.json - JSON-encoded snapshot metadata from Raft state.bin - Encoded snapshot data from Raft SHA256SUMS - SHA-256 sums of the above two files The integrity information is automatically created and checked, and a failure there just looks like an error to the caller.
The archive utilities manage the internal format of a snapshot, which is a tar file with the following contents: meta.json - JSON-encoded snapshot metadata from Raft state.bin - Encoded snapshot data from Raft SHA256SUMS - SHA-256 sums of the above two files The integrity information is automatically created and checked, and a failure there just looks like an error to the caller.
test
test-integ module
testing
deployer Module
retry
Package retry provides support for repeating operations in tests.
Package retry provides support for repeating operations in tests.
troubleshoot module

Jump to

Keyboard shortcuts

? : This menu
/ : Search site
f or F : Jump to
y or Y : Canonical URL