Run Consul-Terraform-Sync

1. Move the consul-terraform-sync binary to a location available on your PATH.

   $ mv ~/Downloads/consul-terraform-sync /usr/local/bin/consul-terraform-sync

   $ mv ~/Downloads/consul-terraform-sync /usr/local/bin/consul-terraform-sync

2. Create the config.hcl file, all the options are available here.

3. Run Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS).

   $ consul-terraform-sync start -config-file <config.hcl>

   $ consul-terraform-sync start -config-file <config.hcl>

4. Check status of tasks. Replace port number if configured in Step 2. See additional API endpoints here

   $ curl localhost:8558/status/tasks

   $ curl localhost:8558/status/tasks

Other Run modes

CTS allows you to inspect your configuration before applying any change and to run in once mode, meaning that you can verify the changes are correctly applied in a test run before running it in unsupervised daemon mode.

To learn more on these options check the Consul-Terraform-Sync Run Modes and Status Inspection tutorial.