myang32 / consul-agent

Consul MSI installer to install a Consul agent as a Windows service

consul-agent

Consul MSI installer to install a Consul agent as a Windows service.

Introduction

The MSI installer will install:

1. The consul.exe in Program Files\HashiCorp\Consul\consul-agent
2. nssm.exe in Program Files\HashiCorp\Consul\consul-agent
3. The consul.json in ProgramData\HashiCorp\Consul\consul-agent
4. Register nssm + consul as a Windows service

Building

The MSI is built at AppVeyor CI, so have a look at the appveyor.yml for details.

Deployment

AppVeyor builds the MSI, but deploys it only if is a tag push.

So releasing a new MSI looks like this.

1. Editing the source tree,
2. git push to build (and test in the future)
3. git tag 0.6.3
4. git push --tags

AppVeyor then builds the MSI again and creates a GitHub release.

Future work

• Add integration tests by installing the MSI and running eg. serverspec tests
• Add example for code signing the nssm.exe, consul.exe and as well the MSI package
• Add better banner images and logos

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.