Novice Level

Creating and Registering a Service in Consul

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30 minutes
  • 4 Learning Objectives

About this Hands-on Lab

In this hands-on lab, you will be provided a single server running the Consul agent in developer mode. Your task is to create a basic service file and to use that file to register a service in Consul. Then you will check to ensure the service is showing in the Consul catalog.

Learning Objectives

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Log in and Test Consul
  1. Log in to the server using the credentials provided.
  2. Verify Consul is ready for use.

(Note: It may take several minutes before Consul is ready for use.)

Create a Service Registration File for Two Services
  1. Create a file called "web-services" in either HCL or JSON format. This file should use whatever stanza’s are required for two services.
  2. First service.
    • Name: web
    • Tag: web-server
    • Port: 80
  3. Second service.
    • Name: web-database
    • Tag: web-server-database
    • Port: 3128
Register the Two Services in Consul
  1. Register the services file you just created using Consul.
Verify Services Are in the Consul Catalog
  1. Confirm services, web and web-database have been successfully registered.
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Additional Resources

You have been tasked with creating a service in Consul to register two services in the one service file. Name this file "web-services" and create the following two services. You may use either HCL or JSON for the file format.

  1. First service
    • Name: web
    • Tag: web-server
    • Port: 80
  2. Second service
    • Name: web-database
    • Tag: web-server-database
    • Port: 3128

Once you have created the file, register this file with the Consul agent provided, and confirm if the services have been registered. Finally run a DNS check for the services, web.service.consul and web-database.service.consul to verify an IP address is returned.

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