CHANGELOG.md

v1.0.0

• Installs Consul and Consul UI to each node
• Installs example configuration for bootstrap, server, and client
• Installs example upstart script

v1.0.1

• Updated README

v1.0.2

• Removed the need for cluster_nodes variable
• Fix client template task
• Fix invalid JSON in the config.json outputs
• Updated documentation

v1.0.3

• Prefix /usr/local/bin in PATH for cases where the consul binary is not found
• Changed UI path
• Add generic SysV init script
• Add Debian init script
• Use systemd for distribution major versions >= 7
• Remove Upstart script
• Updated configuration files

v1.0.4

• Renamed consul_nodes label for better compatibility with my other roles

v1.0.5

• Updated defaults and Consul version (thanks @bscott)
• Made cluster bootable and switch to become_user + other Ansibel best practices (thanks @Rodjers)
• Updated minimum Ansible version required in meta

v1.0.6

• Updated to Consul 0.6.4
• Make bind_address configurable for #1
• Cleaned up deprecaed bare variables
• Updated supporting software versions
• Updated documentation

v1.0.7

• Update supported versions
• Update documentation

v1.0.8

• Update documentation

v1.0.9

• Change datacenter value

v1.0.10

• Remove extra datacenter definition

v1.0.11

• Renamed bootstrap template

v1.0.12

• FIX: No such file or directory /etc/init.d/functions (thanks @oliverprater)
• FIX: Using bare variables is deprecated (thanks @oliverprater)
• Added CONTRIBUTORS.md
• Updated documentation

v1.0.13

• Add initial dnsmasq front end bits
• Reconfigure bootstrap node for normal operation (remove bootstrap-expect) after initial cluster formation and restart bootstrap node

v1.0.14

• Initial test
• Initial Travis CI setup

v1.0.15

• Meta update

v1.1.0

• Bare role now installs and bootstraps cluster; included site.yml will also reconfigure bootstrap node as server and optionally enable dnsmasq forwarding for all cluster agents
• Remove bad client_addr bind in favor of default (localhost) Some weirdness was occurring whereby the client APIs were listening on TCP6/UDP6 sockets but not TCP4/UDP4 when client_addr set to 0.0.0.0
• Adjust timeouts for cluster UI check
• Default configurable domain to "consul" so that examples from docs work, etc.
• Combine all OS vars into main (addresses undefined var warnings)
• Removed separate OS var files
• Updated known working software versions
• Any errors are fatal for the site.yml example playbook
• Explicit pid-file to use in wait_for
• Remove cruft from init script
• Update documentation

v1.2.0

• Consul version 0.7.0
• UI is built in now, so no longer downloaded / installed separately
• Usability improvements (thanks @Rodjers)

v1.2.1

• Tests work locally but not in Travis; trying an env var instead of cfg

v1.2.2

• Updated README

v1.2.3

• Still with the tests

v1.2.4

• Updated README
• Undo 125bd4bb369bb85f58a09b5dc81839e2779bd29f as dots in node_name breaks DNS API (without recursor option) and also breaks dnsmasq option

v1.2.5

• Add LICENSE.txt for Apache 2.0 license

v1.2.6

• Update documentation
• Add consul_node_name variable
• Add consul_dns_bind_address variable
• Add consul_http_bind_address variable
• Add consul_https_bind_address variable
• Add initial ACL variables

v1.2.7

• Secondary nodes now join only the bootstrap node
• Added consul_bootstrap_interface variable
• Add PIDFile to systemd unit
• Updated documentation

v1.2.8

• Stop creating UI directory
• Set correct RAM in Vagrantfile

v1.2.9

• Download once, copy many for Consul binary
• Rename package variables

v1.2.10

• Added consul_rpc_bind_address
• Updated documentation

v1.2.11

• Update supported versions
• Fix up unarchive task quoting

v1.2.12

• Update documentation

v1.2.13

• Doc meta

v1.2.14

• Documentation updates

v1.2.15

• Fail on older versions
• Move distro vars to defaults
• Remove vars

v1.2.16

• Clean up variables (thanks @jessedefer)
• Update documentation (thanks @jessedefer)
• Update CONTRIBUTORS

v1.3.0

• Initial ACL support
• Initial Atlas support
• Streamline main tasks
• Update documentation
• Update variables

v1.3.1

• Correct variable names
• Add token display variables
• Update documentation
• Remove deprecated variables

v1.3.2

• Correct CONSUL_DNSMASQ_ENABLE var name

v1.3.3

• Update/validate CentOS 7 box
• Update documentation
• Updated failure cases for CentOS

v1.3.4

• Update documentation

v1.4.0

• Compatibility with Ubuntu 16.04 (thanks @crumohr)
• iptables support (thanks @crumohr)
• Booleans instead of strings for variables (thanks @crumohr)
• Runnable if DNS is broken (thanks @crumohr)
• Remove unused variables
• Update block conditional for ACLs
• Update documentation

v1.4.1

• Move Dnsmasq restart to inside of tasks
• Add client dependencies for further configuration (thanks @crumohr)
• Fix error using predefined encryption key (thanks @crumohr)
• Removal of redundant includes (thanks @crumohr)

v1.5.0

• Add initial TLS support
• Update documentation

v1.5.1

• Fail when ethernet interface specified by consul_iface not found on the system (addresses #13)

v1.5.2

• Consul version 0.7.1
• Consistent template names
• Update documentation

v1.5.3

• Update start_join for client configuration template

v1.5.4

• Recursors as env var

v1.5.5

• Initial attempts at idempotency in main tasks (for #14, #15)

v1.5.6

• Correct Atlas variable names

v1.5.7

• Remove unnecessary code (thanks @kostyrevaa)
• Determine binary's SHA 256 from releases.hashicorp.com (for #16)
• Update documentation

v1.6.0

• Update task logic around initscripts (for #19)
• Fix issues in initscripts
• Rename Debian init script template
• Update documentation
• Fixing bug with deleting file. Better regex. Formatting. (Thanks @violuke)
• Remember ACL master/replication tokens between runs. Actually set replication token. (Thanks @violuke)
• Typo fix (Thanks @violuke)
• Allowing re-running to add new nodes. More HA too. (Thanks @violuke)

v1.6.1

• Drop Trusty support from meta for now (for #19)

v1.6.2

• Stop reconfiguring bootstrap node as it's not really necessary and spurious races cause failure to re-establish cluster quorum when doing so
• CONSUL_VERSION environment variable
• Deprecated default variables cleanup

v1.6.3

• Ensure that all local_action tasks have become: no (thanks @itewk)

v1.7.0

• Consul version 0.7.2

v1.7.2

• Fix non-working cleanup task
• Update README

v1.7.3

• Version updates
• Task edits
• add CONTRIBUTING.md

v1.7.4

• Consul 0.7.3
• Update documentation

v1.8.0

• Consul 0.7.5
• BREAKING CHANGE: Deprecate read/write of ACL tokens from file system functionality and prefer setting tokens from existing cluster nodes with CONSUL_ACL_MASTER_TOKEN and CONSUL_ACL_REPLICATION_TOKEN environment variables instead
• Update documentation

v1.8.1

• Consul 0.7.5
• Update documentation
• Contributors correction

v1.8.2

• Update Consul bin path in keygen task

v1.9.0

• Local TLS keys (thanks @dggreenbaum)
• Remove Atlas support
• Update documentation

v1.9.1

• Split gossip encryption out into separate task file

v1.9.2

• Keep gossip encryption in main tasks until we sort cross play var
• Compact YAML style for all tasks
• Fix task items, shorten timeouts
• Update documentation

v1.9.3

• Fix local_action tasks

v1.9.4

• Issue with ACL tasks

v1.9.5

• Initial SmartOS support (thanks @sperreault)
• Updated CONTRIBUTORS

v1.9.6

• Update license
• Update preinstall script
• Fix consul_bind_address (thanks @arledesma)
• Better config.json ingress with slurp (thanks @arledesma)

v1.9.7

• Initial ARM support (thanks @lanefu)
• Update CONTRIBUTORS

v1.10.0

• Initial FreeBSD support
• Vagrantfile updated for FreeBSD
• Added checks for interface addresses for differences (obj vs. literal list) in ipv4 addresses as returned by Linux vs. BSD/SmartOS
• New consul_os var gets operating system name as lowercase string
• Add AMD64 pass-through/kludge to consul_architecture_map configuration
• Update Vagrantfile
• Decrease RAM to 1024MB
• Add FreeBSD specific checks in inline script
• Add FreeBSD hard requirements (explicit MAC address, disable share, shell)
• Update documentation

v1.10.1

• Fixup client hosts in template (thanks @violuke)
• Optimize systemd unit file

v1.10.2

• Update main task to create a mo better consul user (addresses #31)

v1.10.3

• Allow specification of ports object (thanks @arledesma)
• Strict TLS material file permissions (thanks @arledesma)
• Update permissions modes to add leading zero
• Random task cleanup
• Update documentation

v1.10.4

• Corrections to config_debianint.j2 for #34
• Update main task to prefer open Consul HTTP API port over PID file
• Update package cache before installing OS packages (watch for and refuse reversion of this as it's occurred once now)

v1.10.5

• Additional fixes to debian init
• Add consul_config_custom for role users to specify new or overwrite existing configuration (thanks @arledesma)

v1.11.0

• File permission updates (thanks @arledesma)
• Explicit consul_user/consul_group ownership of configurations (thanks @arledesma)
• Use consul_bin_path throughout (thanks @arledesma)

v1.11.1

• Updated known good versions
• Format file names
• Look for existing config on all hosts (thanks @misho-kr)
• Update CONTRIBUTORS

v1.11.2

• Fix documentation formatting issues
• Add support for Ubuntu 15.04

v1.11.3

• Update for config generation on only one host (thanks @misho-kr)
• Update meta

v1.12.0

• Consul version 0.8.0
• Update documentation

v1.12.1

• Fix defaults, shake fist at YAML

v1.13.0

• Cleanup of variables
• Fix statement preventing key transfer to new servers (thanks @groggemans)
• Change custom configuration naming convention
• Update documentation

v1.13.1

• Finish documentation updates

v1.14.0

• Fix bootstrapping (thanks @groggemans)

v1.15.0

• Add option to download binaries directly to remotes (thanks @jonhatalla)
• Add environment variable overrides for the following default variables:
  • consul_bind_address
  • consul_datacenter
  • consul_domain
  • consul_group_name
  • consul_log_level
  • consul_syslog_enable
  • consul_acl_default_policy
  • consul_acl_down_policy
  • Rename consul_src_files variable
  • Rename consul_copy_keys variable
  • Rename consul_ca_crt variable
  • Rename consul_server_crt variable
  • Rename consul_server_key variable
  • Rename consul_verify_outgoing variable
  • Rename consul_verify_server_hostname variable
  • Move consul_iface default to value of hostvars.consul_iface
    • Override with elsewhere or with CONSUL_IFACE environment variable
    • Closes #40
• Update documentation

v1.16.0

• Cleanup templates and default vars (thanks @groggemans)
• Add default consul_node_role (client) (thanks @groggemans)
• Update 'gather server facts' task/option (thanks @groggemans)
• Make user management optional + move to own file (thanks @groggemans)
• Properly name-space all vars (thanks @groggemans)
• Move directory settings to own file (thanks @groggemans)
• Replace unsupported Jinja do with if/else (thanks @groggemans)
• Fix missing endif in server configuration template (thanks @groggemans)
• Re-expose consul_bind_address as fact (thanks @groggemans)
• Template output improvements and style changes (thanks @groggemans)
• Add spaces at front end back of JSON arrays (thanks @groggemans)
• Update Vagrantfile
• Update documentation

v1.16.1

• Revert node_role addition to default vars so clusters will still properly come up since we basically lost access the bootstrap role

v1.16.2

• Standing corrected - put node_role back into defaults as it will still be overridden by host vars (sorry @groggemans)
• Update documentation

v1.16.3

• Consul 0.8.1
• Update documentation

v1.17.0

• Updated configuration directory structure (thanks @groggemans)
  • Updated consul_config_path to point to /etc/consul
  • Added consul_configd_path defaulting to /etc/consul.d
• Added consul_debug variable - defaults to no (thanks @groggemans)
• Moved all config related tasks to tasks/config.yml (thanks @groggemans)
• Added ACL and TLS parameters to the main config.json (thanks @groggemans)
• Now using /etc/consul/config.json for all consul roles (thanks @groggemans)
• Fix small bug preventing RPC gossip key to be read (thanks @groggemans)
• Exposed consul_node_role as a fact (thanks @groggemans)
• Update documentation

v1.17.1

• Fix template filename (addresses #58)

v1.17.2

• Switch to local_action for local tasks
• Wrap IPv6 addresses (thanks @tbartelmess)

v1.17.3

• Revert local_action tasks
  • Ansible generally spazzes out with "no action detected in task" for any variation of local_task I tried

v1.17.4

• Clean up task names and make more detailed; use consistent verb intros
• Switch to local_action on all local install tasks
• Already using grep, so let's just awk for the SHA and then register it

v1.18.0

• Add new vars
  • consul_run_path for the PID file
• Add bootstrap-expect toggle option (thanks @groggemans)
• Use directory variables in dirs tasks
• Do not attempt to install Consul binary if already found on consul_bin_path
  • Fixes #60
• Rename intermediate boostrap_marker var
• Formatting on CONTRIBUTING
• Update CONTRIBUTORS
• Updated tested versions
• Update documentation

v1.18.1

• Update stat task

v1.18.2

• Remove check from install_remote

v1.18.3

• Generate correct JSON with TLS and ACL enabled (thanks @tbartelmess)
• Switch local tasks to delegate_to which should cover most concerns

v1.18.4

• Correct links in README (thanks @MurphyMarkW)
• Lower minimum Debian version from 8.5. to 8 (addresses #63)

v1.18.5

• Set | bool where needed to stop warnings about template delimiters
• Add consul group when managing the consul user

v1.19.0

• Consul version 0.8.2
• Enable consul_manage_group var and conditional in user_group tasks
• Initial multi datacenter awareness bits (thanks @groggemans)

v1.19.1

• Consul version 0.8.3
• Recurse perms through config, data, and log directories (thanks @misho-kr)
• Update documentation

v1.20.0

• Initial Windows support (thanks @judy)
• Update documentation
• Update CONTRIBUTORS

v1.20.1

• Update main tasks to move Windows specific tasks into blocks

v1.20.2

• Correct meta for Windows platform
• Update supported versions
• Update documentation

v1.21.1

Update ACL tasks Rename configd_50custom.json.j2 template tp user_custom.json.j2 Rename configd_50acl_policy.hcl template to user_acl_policy.hcl.j2 Do not enable a default set of ACL policies

v1.21.2

Actually add new template files 🤦

v1.22.0

• Revert changes from v1.21.2 and v1.21.1

v1.23.0

• Combines all (client/server/bootstrap) config templates (thanks @groggemans)
• Template for dnsmasq settings (thanks @groggemans)

v1.23.1

• Add files directory

v1.24.0

• Consul 0.8.4
• Remove user_acl_policy.hcl.j2 and user_custom.json.j2
• Update configuration template with new ACL variables
• Remove consul_iface from vagrant_hosts
• Simplify ACL configuration
• Remove checks for consul_acl_replication_token_display
• Update Vagrantfile
• Update README

v1.24.1

• Add ansible.cfg for examples and install netaddr (thanks @arehmandev)
• Improve HTTP API check (thanks @dmke)
• Update CONTRIBUTORS

v1.24.2

• Use consul_run_path variable (thanks @vincent-legoll)
• Replace remaining hardcoded paths (thanks @vincent-legoll)
• Factorize LOCK_FILE (thanks @vincent-legoll)
• CHANGELOG++
• Update CONTRIBUTORS
• Update README

v1.24.3

• Consul v0.8.5
• Fix "Check Consul HTTP API" via unix socket (thanks @vincent-legoll)
• Avoid warning about already existing directory (thanks @vincent-legoll)
• Fix typos in messages (thanks @vincent-legoll)
• Fix documentation about consul_node_role (thanks @vincent-legoll)
• Update documentation

v1.25.0

• Consul version 0.9.0
• Add consul_tls_verify_server_hostname to TLS configuration template
• Begin to add relevant Consul docs links to variable descriptions in README
• Fix formatting in README_VAGRANT (thanks @jstoja)
• Update CONTRIBUTORS

v1.25.1

• Support rolling upgrades on systemd based Linux (thanks oliverprater)
• Fix breaking change in paths and runtime warnings (thanks oliverprater)
• Set CONSUL_TLS_DIR default to /etc/consul/ssl for #95

v1.25.2

• Rename cluster_nodes label to consul_instances

v1.25.3

• Consul v0.9.2
• Add enable_script_checks parameter (thanks @groggemans)
• Update documentation

v1.25.4

• Add raft_protocol parameter, fix version compares (thanks @groggemans)
• Add missing address and port config (thanks @groggemans)
• Add missing ACL config options (thanks @groggemans)
• Prefer retry_join and retry_join_wan instead of start_join / start_join_wan
• DNSMasq updates (thanks @groggemans)

v1.26.0

• Add node_meta config (thanks @groggemans)
• Add additional retry-join parameters (thanks @groggemans)
• Add DNSMasq for Red Hat (thanks @giannidallatorre)
• Fix typo (thanks @vincent-legoll)
• Allow post setup bootstrapping of ACLs (thanks @groggemans)
• Add disable_update_check to config options (thanks @groggemans)
• Fix list example data type (thanks @vincent-legoll)
• Remove tasks for installation of python-consul (thanks @vincent-legoll)

v1.26.1

• Fix deprecation notice on include
• Change example server hostnames

v1.27.0

• Consul v0.9.3
• Update server joining (thanks @groggemans)
• Fix types that should be lists (thanks @vincent-legoll)

v1.28.0

• Consul 1.0!
• Fix python3 compatibility for meta data (thanks @groggemans)

v1.28.1

• Remove deprecated advertise_addrs to resolve #123 so that role works again

v1.29.0

• Consul v1.0.1
• Fix idempotency (thanks @issmirnov)
• Make gossip encryption optional (thanks @hwmrocker)
• Install netaddr with --user
• Update documentation
• Update CONTRIBUTORS

v1.30.0

• Consul v1.0.2
• Update documentation

v1.30.1

• Add performance tuning configuration (thanks @t0k4rt)
  • Set raft multiplier to 1
• Conditionally install Python dependency baed on virtualenv or --user Addresses ansible-collections#129 (comment)
• Update includes to import_tasks and include_tasks
• Remove invalid consul_version key from configuration
• Update Vagrantfile
  • Set client address to 0.0.0.0 so Vagrant based deploy checks now pass
• Update documentation

v1.30.2

• Correct retry_join block (@thanks hwmrocker)

v1.40.0

• Consul v1.0.3
• It's 2018!
• Update configuration
• Update documentation

v1.50.0

• Consul v1.0.6
• Add support for setting syslog facility and syslog file (thanks @ykhemani)
• Update configuration
• Update tests
• Update documentation (thanks also to @ChrisMcKee)