Tries to follow the packaging guidelines from Fedora.

• Binary: /usr/bin/consul
• Config: /etc/consul/
• Shared state: /var/lib/consul/
• Sysconfig: /etc/sysconfig/consul
• WebUI: /usr/share/consul/

If you have Vagrant installed:

• Check out this repo.

  git clone https://github.com/tomhillable/consul-rpm
  

• Edit Vagrantfile to point to your favourite box (Bento CentOS7 in this example).

  config.vm.box = "http://opscode-vm-bento.s3.amazonaws.com/vagrant/virtualbox/opscode_centos-7.0_chef-provisionerless.box"
  

• Vagrant up! The rpms will be copied to working directory after provisioning.

  vagrant up
  

Or, do it manually by building the RPM as a non-root user from your home directory:

• Check out this repo. Seriously - check it out. Nice.

  git clone <this_repo_url>
  

• Install rpmdevtools and mock.

  sudo yum install rpmdevtools mock
  

• Set up your rpmbuild directory tree.

  rpmdev-setuptree
  

• Link the spec file and sources.

  ln -s $HOME/consul-rpm/SPECS/consul.spec $HOME/rpmbuild/SPECS/
  find $HOME/consul-rpm/SOURCES -type f -exec ln -s {} $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES/ \;
  

• Download remote source files.

  spectool -g -R rpmbuild/SPECS/consul.spec
  

• Spectool may fail if your distribution has an older version of cURL (CentOS 6.x, for example) - if so, use Wget instead.

  VER=`grep Version rpmbuild/SPECS/consul.spec | awk '{print $2}'`
  URL='https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/consul'
  wget $URL/${VER}_linux_amd64.zip -O $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES/${VER}_linux_amd64.zip
  wget $URL/${VER}_web_ui.zip -O $HOME/rpmbuild/SOURCES/${VER}_web_ui.zip
  

• Build the RPM.

  rpmbuild -ba rpmbuild/SPECS/consul.spec
  

Two RPMS: one each for the Consul binary and the WebUI.

• Install the RPM.
• Put config files in /etc/consul/.
• Change command line arguments to consul in /etc/sysconfig/consul.
  • Add -bootstrap only if this is the first server and instance.
• Start the service and tail the logs systemctl start consul.service and journalctl -f.
  • To enable at reboot systemctl enable consul.service.
• Consul may complain about the GOMAXPROCS setting. This is safe to ignore; however, the warning can be supressed by uncommenting the appropriate line in /etc/sysconfig/consul.

Config files are loaded in lexicographical order from the config-dir. Some sample configs are provided.

See the consul.io website.