Setting up the Consul Server

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Pull the Consul image. 
    docker pull progrium/consul
  2. Tag and push this image to Google Container Registry using the following commands: 
    docker tag progrium/consul gcr.io/<project name>/progrium/consul 
gcloud docker tag gcr.io/<gcloud project name>/progrium/consul
  3. Configure the yaml file as below 
    apiVersion: v1
kind: ReplicationController
metadata:
  name: consul-server 
labels:
    app: consul-service
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    app: consul-server
  template:
    metadata:
      name: consul-server
      labels:
        app: consul-server
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: consul-server
          image: your image name 
          args:
            - '-server'
            - '-bootstrap'
          imagePullPolicy: Always
          ports:
            - containerPort: 8500
            - containerPort: 8400
            - containerPort: 53
              protocol: UDP
  4. Execute the command: 
    kubectl create -f <yaml file>
  5. Get the external IP address of the Consul service and from the browser launch Consul UI using 
    http://External IP
  6. Configure the Key/Value pair for your application as following: 
    <BWCE application name>/<Profile Name>/<Key Name>
    For example, 
    tibco.bwce.sample.palette.jms.Consul.application/dev/MESSAGE
    or 
    tibco.bwce.sample.palette.jms.Consul.application/qa/MESSAGE