Setting up Consul as service registry inside a Swarm cluster

As before, we'll start by setting up a Swarm cluster. From there on, we'll proceed with the Consul setup and a quick overview of the basic operations we can do with it. That will give us the knowledge necessary for the rest of this chapter.

Note

A note to The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit readers You might be tempted to skip this sub-chapter since you already learned how to set up Consul. I recommend you read on. We'll use the official Consul image that was not available at the time I wrote the previous book. At the same time, I promise to keep this sub-chapter as brief as possible without confusing the new readers too much.

 

Practice makes perfect, but there is a limit after which there is no reason to repeat the same commands over and over. I'm sure that, by now, you got tired of writing the commands that create a Swarm cluster. So, I prepared the scripts/dm-swarm.sh (https://github.com/vfarcic/cloud-provisioning/blob/master/scripts/dm-swarm...