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# Awesome Consul [![Build Status](https://api.travis-ci.org/josegonzalez/awesome-consul.svg?branch=master )](https://travis-ci.org/josegonzalez/awesome-consul)



This is a list of awesome third-party consul projects, libraries.



## Why consul



+ Easy to install

+ HTTP APIs

+ Design for distributed system

+ Flexible health check

+ Excellent documentation



## Table Of Contents



- Projects

    - [Alerting](#alerting)

    - [Authentication and Authorization](#authentication-and-authorization)

    - [Backup and Restore](#backup-and-restore)

    - [CLI Tools](#cli-tools)

    - [Command Execution](#command-execution)

    - [Configuration Management](#configuration-management)

    - [Monitoring](#monitoring)

    - [Other](#other)

    - [Packaging](#packaging)

    - [Provisioning](#provisioning)

    - [Programming Language Clients](#programming-language-clients)

    - [Service Discovery](#service-discovery)

    - [Errata](#errata)

- Links

    - [Articles](#articles)

    - [Presentations](#presentations)



## Projects



### Alerting



+ [consulalerting: Alert groups, teams, individuals by tags and plugins](https://github.com/jrxFive/consulalerting)

+ [consul-alerts: Simple daemon to send notifications based on Consul health checks](https://github.com/AcalephStorage/consul-alerts)



### Authentication And Authorization



+ [consult: Consul helper tool for quick query based SSH and more](https://github.com/outbrain/consult)

+ [ssh-hecate: SSH authorized_keys management via Consul](https://github.com/ncfritz/ssh-hecate)



### Backup and Restore



> *As of Consul 0.7.1, you can use [consul snapshot](https://www.consul.io/docs/commands/snapshot) for some use-cases.*



+ [Consul KV backup](https://github.com/kailunshi/consul-backup)

+ [consul-backinator](https://github.com/myENA/consul-backinator)

+ [consul-snapshot: A consul backup daemon to S3](https://github.com/pshima/consul-snapshot)



### CLI Tools



+ [consul-cli: Command line interface](https://github.com/mantl/consul-cli)

+ [consul-bash-completion: Consul Bash Completion library](https://github.com/nzroller/consul-bash-completion)

+ [fileconsul: Share files stored in a consul cluster](https://github.com/foostan/fileconsul)



### Command Execution



> *As of Consul 0.5, you can use [consul lock](https://www.consul.io/docs/commands/lock) for many of these tasks.*



+ [cdsh: Distributed SSH](https://github.com/grubernaut/cdsh)

+ [consul-do: Do something based on leadership status](https://github.com/zeroXten/consul-do)

+ [consul-lock: Runs another program with a Consul session/kv locked.](https://github.com/fujiwara/consul-lock)

+ [consul-locker: Enforce that a program runs only on one machine at a time in a datacenter.](https://github.com/fidian/consul-locker)

+ [cronsul: Very simple distributed periodic job scheduler](https://github.com/EvanKrall/cronsul)

+ [dkron: Distributed, fault tolerant job scheduling system](http://dkron.io/)

+ [metronome: Scheduling tool on Consul](https://github.com/cloudconductor/metronome)

+ [sifter: Helps to prevent Consul from firing prematurely](https://github.com/darron/sifter)



### Configuration Management



+ [confd: Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul](https://github.com/kelseyhightower/confd)

+ [consul-template: Generic template rendering and notifications with Consul](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-template)

+ [crypt: Store and retrieve encrypted configs](https://github.com/xordataexchange/crypt)

+ [envconsul: Read and set environmental variables for processes from Consul](https://github.com/hashicorp/envconsul)

+ [hashi-helper: Disaster Recovery and Configuration Management for Consul and Vault](https://github.com/seatgeek/hashi-helper)

+ [hiera-consul: Hiera backend plugin for Consul](https://github.com/lynxman/hiera-consul)

+ [kvexpress: Go program to move data in and out of Consul's KV store](https://github.com/DataDog/kvexpress)

+ [Consul.conf: responsive web interface for managing configuration of your services in Consul KV store](https://github.com/lukaszlach/consul-conf)



### Load Balancing



+ [consul-envoy: Consul to Envoy Bridge](https://github.com/jippi/consul-envoy)

+ [fabio: A fast, modern, zero-conf load balancing HTTP(S) router for deploying microservices managed by consul](https://github.com/fabiolb/fabio)

+ [Træfɪk: a modern reverse proxy](https://traefik.io/)

+ [nginx-upsync-module - Nginx C module, sync upstreams from consul or others](https://github.com/weibocom/nginx-upsync-module)



### Monitoring



+ [liaison: A daemon that collects service health information from Consul and converts it to time series data](https://github.com/cruatta/liaison)



### Other



+ [consul-topology-visualizer: Visualize latency between your Consul nodes](https://github.com/vmarchaud/consul-topology-visualizer)

+ [consulfs: ConsulFS is a FUSE distributed filesystem backed by a Consul Key-Value store](https://github.com/bwester/consulfs)

+ [consulmq: Golang library for using consul as a message queue](https://github.com/peterfraedrich/consulmq)

+ [git2consul: Mirrors for multiple git repos](https://github.com/breser/git2consul)

+ [uwsgi-consul: uWSGI plugin for consul integration](https://github.com/unbit/uwsgi-consul)



### Packaging



+ Debian

    + [bcandrea/consul-deb](https://github.com/bcandrea/consul-deb)

+ RPM

    + [tomhillable/consul-rpm](https://github.com/tomhillable/consul-rpm)



### Provisioning



+ Ansible

    + [griggheo/ansible-consul-template](https://github.com/griggheo/ansible-consul-template)

    + [mattupstate/vpc-consul](https://github.com/mattupstate/vpc-consul)

    + [mattfinlayson/ansible-consul](https://github.com/mattfinlayson/ansible-consul)

    + [sgargan/consul](https://github.com/sgargan/consul)

+ Chef

    + [adamkrone/chef-consul-template](https://github.com/adamkrone/chef-consul-template)

    + [darron/consul-cookbook](https://github.com/darron/consul-cookbook)

    + [sous-chefs/consul](https://github.com/sous-chefs/consul)

+ Docker

    + [hashicorp/docker-consul](https://github.com/hashicorp/docker-consul)

    + [foostan/consul-with-docker](https://github.com/foostan/consul-with-docker)

    + [gliderlabs/docker-consul](https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-consul)

+ Puppet

    + [solarkennedy/puppet-consul](https://github.com/solarkennedy/puppet-consul)

+ Salt

    + [systembell/salt-consul](https://github.com/systembell/salt-consul)



### Programming Language Clients



+ Go

    + [armon/consul-api](https://github.com/armon/consul-api)

    + [consulstructure: Decode Consul data into Go (Golang) structures and watch for updates](https://github.com/mitchellh/consulstructure)

+ Java

    + [Ecwid/consul-api](https://github.com/Ecwid/consul-api)

    + [rickfast/consul-client]( https://github.com/rickfast/consul-client)

+ Node.js

    + [gjohnson/consul-node](https://github.com/gjohnson/consul-node)

    + [silas/node-consul](https://github.com/silas/node-consul)

+ PHP

    + [baldurrensch/consul-php](https://github.com/baldurrensch/consul-php)

    + [FriendsOfPHP/consul-php-sdk](https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/consul-php-sdk)

+ Python

    + [cablehead/python-consul](https://github.com/cablehead/python-consul)

    + [gmr/consulate](https://github.com/gmr/consulate)

    + [xav-b/pyconsul](https://github.com/xav-b/pyconsul)

+ Ruby

    + [WeAreFarmGeek/diplomat](https://github.com/WeAreFarmGeek/diplomat)

    + [xaviershay/consul-client](https://github.com/xaviershay/consul-client)

+ Scala

    + [codacy/scala-consul](https://github.com/codacy/scala-consul)

    + [getnelson/helm](https://github.com/getnelson/helm)



### Service Discovery



+ [connectable: Magic proxy for internal services](https://github.com/gliderlabs/connectable)

+ [registrator: Service registry bridge for Docker with pluggable adapters](https://github.com/gliderlabs/registrator)

+ [resolvable: Host-level DNS gateway for Docker](https://github.com/gliderlabs/resolvable)



## Links



### Articles



+ [Consul at Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/consul-at-datadog/ ) - Article by Darron Froese on how Datadog deploys consul in production.

+ [Monitoring Consul Health and Performance](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/monitor-consul-health-and-performance-with-datadog/) - Article by @vagelim on how to monitor consul.

+ [Securing Consul](https://www.mauras.ch/securing-consul.html) - Article on making your consul setup more secure than the defaults give you.

+ [Managing Secrets with Vault and Consul](https://testdriven.io/blog/managing-secrets-with-vault-and-consul/) - This post looks at how to set up and use Hashicorp's Vault and Consul to securely store and manage secrets.

+ [Configuration management with Consul](https://medium.com/magnet-me-engineering/configuration-management-with-consul-a36cfa1252ea) - Article by Michael de Jongon on how to manage the configuration of many different services located in a cluster where services are running in different datacenters

### Presentations



+ [Running Consul at Scale—Journey from RFC to Production](https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon16/program/presentation/froese) (SRECON 2016)



### Errata



#### ZeroRPC



[consul.d](consul.d) is an example configure file that consul working with ZeroRPC.



First, start a zerorpc server:



```

$ zerorpc --server --bind tcp://*:8081 time

```



Then, start the consul agent and the web UI:



```

$ bin/consul agent -config-dir ./consul.d

```