Consul Enterprise

Consul on ECS supports running Consul Enterprise by specifying the Consul Enterprise Docker image in the Terraform module parameters.

How To Use Consul Enterprise

When instantiating the mesh-task module, set the parameter consul_image to a Consul Enterprise image, e.g. hashicorp/consul-enterprise:1.10.0-ent:

module "my_task" {
  source  = "hashicorp/consul-ecs/aws//modules/mesh-task"
  version = "<latest version>"
  consul_image = "hashicorp/consul-enterprise:<version>-ent"
  ...
}

Licensing

Warning: Consul Enterprise is currently only fully supported when ACLs are enabled.

Consul Enterprise requires a license. If running Consul on ECS with ACLs enabled, the license will be automatically pulled down from Consul servers.

Currently there is no capability for specifying the license when ACLs are disabled so if you wish to run Consul Enterprise clients then you must enable ACLs.

Running Open Source Consul Clients

Consul supports running Consul Enterprise servers with Consul OSS (Open Source) clients. Since currently no Consul Enterprise features are supported that require Consul client support, you can run Consul OSS clients with Consul Enterprise servers without issue.

Feature Support

Consul on ECS does not currently support any Consul Enterprise features that require support from Consul clients. That being said, there are many enterprise features that are activated only on Consul servers and so Consul on ECS will run fine with those features.