An easy way to get a cluster of Consul boxes to play with.
These boxes are built with consul-cookbook and are available on Vagrant Cloud as darron/consul.
git clone
vagrant up server1
vagrant ssh server1
sudo tail -f /var/log/upstart/consul.log
Open another terminal or tab and launch the others:
vagrant up server2
vagrant up server3
vagrant up server4
vagrant up server5
You should have a fully working 5 member cluster at the end of this.
To access the built in web ui that's new on 0.2.0 - you can add something similar to your ~/.ssh/config file:
Host consulserver1
Hostname 127.0.0.1
Port 2222
IdentityFile /Users/your-name-goes-here/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key
User vagrant
LocalForward 8500 localhost:8500
Double check for Hostname, Port and Identity file - the web ui looks great.
When you're done - just vagrant destroy to cleanup.