Consul-AWS

consul-aws syncs the services in an AWS CloudMap namespace to a Consul datacenter. Consul services will be created in AWS CloudMap and the other way around. This enables native service discovery across Consul and AWS CloudMap.

This project is versioned separately from Consul. Supported Consul versions for each feature will be noted below. By versioning this project separately, we can iterate on AWS integrations more quickly and release new versions without forcing Consul users to do a full Consul upgrade.

Installation

1. Download a pre-compiled, released version from the Consul-AWS releases page.

2. Extract the binary using unzip or tar.

3. Move the binary into $PATH.

To compile from source, please see the instructions in the contributing section.

Usage

consul-aws can sync from Consul to AWS CloudMap (-to-aws), from AWS CloudMap to Consul (-to-consul) and both at the same time. No matter which direction is being used consul-aws needs to be connected to Consul and AWS CloudMap.

In order to help with connecting to a Consul cluster, consul-aws provides all the flags you might need including the possibility to set an ACL token. consul-aws loads your AWS configuration from .aws, from the instance profile and ENV variables - it supports everything provided by the AWS golang sdk. A default AWS region is not assumed. You can specify this with the standard AWS environment variables or as part of your static credentials.

Apart from that a AWS CloudMap namespace id has to be provided. This is how consul-aws could be invoked to sync both directions:

$ ./consul-aws sync-catalog -aws-namespace-id ns-hjrgt3bapp7phzff -to-aws -to-consul

Contributing

To build and install consul-aws locally, Go version 1.21+ is required. You will also need to install the Docker engine:

• Docker for Mac
• Docker for Windows
• Docker for Linux

Clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-aws.git

To compile the consul-aws binary for your local machine:

$ make dev

This will compile the consul-aws binary into dist/$OS/$ARCH/consul-aws as well as your $GOPATH.

To create a docker image with your local changes:

$ make dev-docker

Testing

If you just want to run the tests:

$ make test

Or to run a specific test in the suite:

go test ./... -run SomeTestFunction_name

Note: To run the sync integration tests, you must specify INTTEST=1 in your environment and AWS credentials. You must also have a Consul server running locally.

Compatibility with Consul

consul-aws is compatible with supported versions of Consul. See long-term support docs for more information.