consul/demo/vagrant-cluster

Vagrant Consul Demo

This demo provides a very simple Vagrantfile that creates two Consul server nodes, one at 172.20.20.10 and another at 172.20.20.11. Both are running a standard Debian * distribution, and the latest version of Consul is pre-installed.

To get started, you can start the nodes by just doing:

vagrant up

NOTE: If you prefer a different Vagrant box, you can set the DEMO_BOX_NAME environment variable before starting vagrant like this: DEMO_BOX_NAME="ubuntu/xenial64" vagrant up

Once it is finished, you should be able to see the following:

vagrant status
Current machine states:

n1                        running (virtualbox)
n2                        running (virtualbox)

At this point the two nodes are running and you can SSH in to play with them:

vagrant ssh n1
consul version
Consul v0.7.5
Protocol 2 spoken by default, understands 2 to 3 (agent will automatically use protocol >2 when speaking to compatible agents)
exit

and

vagrant ssh n2
consul version
Consul v0.7.5
Protocol 2 spoken by default, understands 2 to 3 (agent will automatically use protocol >2 when speaking to compatible agents)
exit

NOTE: This demo will query the HashiCorp Checkpoint service to determine the the latest Consul release version and install that version by default, but if you need a different Consul version, set the CONSUL_DEMO_VERSION environment variable before vagrant up like this: CONSUL_DEMO_VERSION=0.6.4 vagrant up

Where to Next?

To learn more about starting Consul, joining nodes into a cluster, and interacting with the agent, check out the Getting Started guide.