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Connection

consul
Main binary to interact with Consul

consul agent -dev
Start a development Consul agent

consul connect
Connect to the Consul agent

consul info
Display information about the local Consul agent

Service Discovery

consul catalog services
List all registered services

consul catalog nodes
List all registered nodes

consul catalog service
List all instances of a service

consul catalog node
List all services registered on a node

Key-Value Store

consul kv put
Put a value in the key-value store

consul kv get
Get a value from the key-value store

consul kv delete
Delete a key-value pair

consul kv export [prefix]
Export KV data

consul kv import
Import KV data

Health Checks

consul members
List members of the Consul cluster

consul monitor
Stream logs from a Consul agent

consul reload
Reload agent configuration

consul health service
Check health of a service

consul health checks
List checks for a service

consul health state
List checks in a state (critical, warning, passing)

ACL

consul acl bootstrap
Bootstrap the ACL system

consul acl token create
Create a new ACL token

consul acl token list
List ACL tokens

consul acl policy create
Create an ACL policy

consul acl role create
Create an ACL role

DNS Interface

dig @127.0.0.1 -p 8600 .service.consul
Query DNS for service address

dig @127.0.0.1 -p 8600 .service.consul SRV
Query DNS for service SRV record

HTTP API

curl http://localhost:8500/v1/catalog/services
List all registered services via HTTP API

curl http://localhost:8500/v1/health/service/
Check health of a service via HTTP API

curl http://localhost:8500/v1/kv/
Get a value from KV store via HTTP API

curl -X PUT -d http://localhost:8500/v1/kv/
Put a value in KV store via HTTP API