Consul Provider

Consul is a tool for service discovery, configuration and orchestration. The Consul provider exposes resources used to interact with a Consul cluster. Configuration of the provider is optional, as it provides defaults for all arguments.

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NOTE: The Consul provider should not be confused with the Consul remote state backend, which is one of many backends that can be used to store Terraform state. The Consul provider is instead used to manage resources within Consul itself, such as adding external services or working with the key/value store.

Example Usage

# Configure the Consul provider
provider "consul" {
  address    = "demo.consul.io:80"
  datacenter = "nyc1"
}

# Access a key in Consul
resource "consul_keys" "app" {
  key {
    name    = "ami"
    path    = "service/app/launch_ami"
    default = "ami-1234"
  }
}

# Use our variable from Consul
resource "aws_instance" "app" {
  ami = "${consul_keys.app.var.ami}"
}

Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

• address - (Optional) The HTTP(S) API address of the agent to use. Defaults to "127.0.0.1:8500".
• scheme - (Optional) The URL scheme of the agent to use ("http" or "https"). Defaults to "http".
• http_auth - (Optional) HTTP Basic Authentication credentials to be used when communicating with Consul, in the format of either user or user:pass. This may also be specified using the CONSUL_HTTP_AUTH environment variable.
• datacenter - (Optional) The datacenter to use. Defaults to that of the agent.
• token - (Optional) The ACL token to use by default when making requests to the agent.
• ca_file - (Optional) A path to a PEM-encoded certificate authority used to verify the remote agent's certificate.
• cert_file - (Optional) A path to a PEM-encoded certificate provided to the remote agent; requires use of key_file.
• key_file- (Optional) A path to a PEM-encoded private key, required if cert_file is specified.
• insecure_https- (Optional) Boolean value to disable SSL certificate verification; setting this value to true is not recommended for production use. Only use this with scheme set to "https".