Consul Installation

consul.service

#
# This needs to be installed here:
# /etc/systemd/system/consul.service
#

[Unit]
Description=consul
Requires=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Environment="GOMAXPROCS=2" "PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
Restart=on-failure
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/consul agent -config-file=/etc/consul/consul.json -config-dir=/etc/consul/conf.d
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
KillSignal=TERM

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

leader.json

{
  "bootstrap": true,
  "data_dir": "/opt/consul",
  "node_name": "CON01",
  "server": true,
  "ui": true
}

server.json

{
  "data_dir": "/opt/consul",
  "node_name": "CON02",
  "server": true,
  "start_join": "IP.OF.LEADER"
}