Last two articles about Consul service discovery involved one simple but extremely boring manual task: creating and configuring a cluster. In fact, I had to do it twice. I had to create three virtual machines, download and unpack Consul on them, find out their IP addresses, add configuration files and finally launch the binaries.
It’s dull. It’s boring. Humans shouldn’t do that kinds of things by hand. Seeing how easily we can automate creation of Docker containers with Dockerfile and docker-compose makes me wonder if we can do the same for hosts. Continue reading “How to use Vagrant to create Consul cluster”
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