Can't get node to be a bootstrap server

[iglesiasroberto14]

Hi

I'm new to both consul and ansible and i'm trying to get a new datacenter built from the ground easier.

So I've been trying to get the first node to bootstrap the cluster. After dealing with some issues and learning a little how ansible/consul works, I finally get the tasks working.

But when i run "ps fax | grep consul" on the node, i see

13862 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/local/bin/consul agent -config-file=/etc/consul/config.json -config-dir=/etc/consul/consul.d -pid-file=/var/run/consul/consul.pid

There is no -server, -bootstrap nor -bootstrap-expect=N parameters in the running process.

Here is my /etc/ansible/hosts file

[web_servers]
web.pve1.dc1.ispdigital consul_node_role=server consul_bootstrap_expect=True consul_bootstrap_expect_value=1

[consul_instances]
web.pve1.dc1.ispdigital

Here is my site.yml file

---
- hosts: consul_instances
  vars:
    consul_services:
      - name: "apache"
        tags: ['web']
  become: yes
  tasks:
  - name: install apache2
    apt:
      name: apache2
      update_cache: yes
      state: latest
  - name: install unzip
    apt:
      name: unzip
      update_cache: yes
      state: latest
  - name: install pip
    apt:
      name: python-pip
      update_cache: yes 
      state: latest
  - name: edit index.html
    shell:
     echo $(hostname -f) > /var/www/html/index.html
  - import_role:
      name: consul

Thank you!

PD: Great role you have here!

[Gurpartap]

The command line flags are instead set as configuration in the file, /etc/consul/config.json.

Also consider using consul_node_role for each of servers and clients. consul_bootstrap_expect_value is automatically calculated from the number of hosts with consul_node_role=server.

[iglesiasroberto14]

Hi Gurpartap!

Thank you for answering my post. Now it is working.

Thank you!