Chef Consul

Chef Consul is a Gem & Chef Recipe that includes extensions to chefs node object that allows easy interaction with consul leveraging Diplomat.

If you want to develop/hack on chef-consul, please see the CONTRIBUTING.md.

If you are using Berkshelf, add chef-consul to your Berksfile:

cookbook 'chef-consul'

Otherwise, you can use knife or download the tarball directly from the community site:

knife cookbook site install chef-consul

In order to use Chef Consul in your Chef Recipes, you'll first need to include it:

include_recipe 'chef-consul::default'

Alternatively you can put it in a base role or recipe and it will be included subsequently.

Requiring the Chef Consul Gem will automatically extend the node object with consul methods.

Note: For the most extensive API documentation, please see the YARD documentation.

Additional methods for the node object

• first_service(name) - fetch the first node in a service.
• all_services(name) - fetch all nodes in a service.
• get_consul_key(key, recursive = false) - return the value of a key in consul.
• put_consul_key(key, value) - write a value to a key in consul

services = node.all_services('consul')
# => [#<OpenStruct Node="consul0", Address="1.2.3.4", ServiceID="consul", ServiceName="consul", ServiceTags=["consul"], ServicePort=8300>,#<OpenStruct Node="consul1", Address="1.2.3.5", ServiceID="consul", ServiceName="consul", ServiceTags=["consul"], ServicePort=8300>]

node.put_consul_key('test', 'value')
# => "value"

• Author: Sam Dunne (sam@sam-dunne.com)

Copyright 2015 Sam Dunne

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