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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.

Use the navigation to the left to read about the available resources.

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 HTP API address of the agent to use. Defaults to "127.0.0.1:8500".
• datacenter - (Optional) The datacenter to use. Defaults to that of the agent.