Run Consul-Terraform-Sync

  1. Move the consul-terraform-sync binary to a location available on your PATH.
  1. $ mv ~/Downloads/consul-terraform-sync /usr/local/bin/consul-terraform-sync

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

  2. Run consul-terraform-sync.

  1. $ consul-terraform-sync -config-file <config.hcl>
  1. Check status of tasks. Replace port number if configured in Step 2. See additional API endpoints here
  1. $ curl localhost:8558/status/tasks

Other Run modes

Consul-Terraform-Sync 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.