Provisioning cluster of VMs with Ansible
Seeing how easy it was to provision one VM with Ansible, I can’t stop thinking: would it be as easy to deal with the whole cluster? …
Tag: consul
Provisioning Vagrant VM with Ansible
I’m still looking for ways to automate hosts configuration. So far I’ve been using Vagrant + bash/PowerShell for configuring Linux or Windows hosts, but somehow I …
Building VM image with Packer
Quite often building a VM from scratch is not very wise. Unless server configuration is trivial, its provisioning might take significant amount of time. For example, creating an instance …
Using Vagrant for Windows VMs provisioning
Using Vagrant for creating Consul cluster on Linux probably was fun. But what about Windows hosts? Believe it or not, but more than half of developers are …
How to use Vagrant to create Consul cluster
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 …
Checking service health status with Consul
In previous post we created a small Consul cluster which kept track of 4 services in it: two web services and two db‘s. However, we didn’t …
Using Consul for Service Discovery
Imagine your distributed app has two kinds of services: web and db. Both of them are replicated for higher availability, live on different hosts, go …
Using Consul Key-Value Store for Service Configuration
How do you usually configure an app? Over the decades our industry came up with multiple approaches, like providing command line arguments, various config files, registry settings …