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Consul Agent Services

Command: consul services

The services command has subcommands for interacting with Consul services registered with the local agent. These provide useful commands such as register and deregister for easily registering services in scripts, dev mode, etc. To view all services in the catalog, instead of only agent-local services, see the catalog services command.

Usage

Usage: consul services <subcommand>

For the exact documentation for your Consul version, run consul services -h to view the complete list of subcommands.

Usage: consul services <subcommand> [options] [args]

  ...

Subcommands:
    deregister    Deregister services with the local agent
    register      Register services with the local agent

For more information, examples, and usage about a subcommand, click on the name of the subcommand in the sidebar.

Basic Examples

To create a simple service:

$ consul services register -name=web

To create a service from a configuration file:

$ cat web.json
{
  "Service": {
    "Name": "web"
  }
}

$ consul services register web.json

To deregister a service:

# Either style works:
$ consul services deregister web.json

$ consul services deregister -id web