puppet consul_alerts

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Module Description - What the module does and why it is useful
3. Setup - The basics of getting started with consul_alerts
   • What consul_alerts affects
4. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
5. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.
6. Development - Guide for contributing to the module

Overview

This module can install the consul_alerts toolkit to your machine. It supports:

• Debian Wheezy
• Ubuntu Precise/Trusty
• CentOS/RHEL 5 or 6

More information about consul-alerts is on their github repo: https://github.com/AcalephStorage/consul-alerts

Module Description

This module installs a consul-alerts binary and configures a basic upstart init script for it. Will keep updated version as you install new versions of the consul-alerts binary.

Setup

What consul_alerts affects

• Installs a version specific version of consul-alerts to your system

Usage

puppet module install jlondon-consul_alerts

Also supports inclusion in librarian-puppet

Usage of the module is pretty basic and shouldn't need much other than a default run:

class { 'consul_alerts':
  ensure      => present,
  data_center => 'dc1', 
}

Note: Make sure you have consul and key/value config for consul-alerts configured before installation!

Limitations

Only tested to work with Debian wheezy, Ubuntu precise/trusty or centos 5/6.

Development

Feel free to fork and modify this module. Please make sure that if you make a useful change to submit a pull request! Additionally if you do fully fork the project, please do not remove attribution (I only ask this because it has happened before).