Consul Demo

This is a simple demo and introduction to consul.

Setup

Setup assumes a Mac running a modern version of OS X

1. Install boot2docker
2. Install docker-compose:

pip install docker-compose

1. Clone this repo, run consul

git clone git@github.com:micahhausler/consul-demo.git
cd consul-demo/
docker-compose build
docker-compose up

See the UI

http://192.168.59.103:8500/ui/

Interact

Check out the IPython notebook Consul by running:

pip install -r python_app/requirements.txt
ipython notebook --no-browser

and navigate to /notebooks/Consul.ipnb

Query the DNS API

You can query the consul DNS API once your containers are up by running:

dig @$(boot2docker ip) PythonApp.service.consul +tcp