gcp/consul

Terraform and Ansible script to deploy Consul within a GCP instance.

Requirements: GCP project and Project wide SSH Key

STEPS

If you are running Terraform inside a GCP instance running from a supported image, go to step 2

Step 1 - Create service account in your GCP project

• IAM & admin / Service accounts / Create Service Account

•  Roles: Compute Instance Admin (v1) / Service Account User / Storage Object Admin
  

•  Options / Create key / Download JSON file
  

Step 2 - Download and Install Terraform

• https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html

Step 3 - Clone repo and adapt code

• Clone GitHub Repo - https://github.com/sveronneau/gcp
• Adapt gcp/consul/consul.tf to fit your GCP identity file (or not), project, zone and Consul node count

Step 4 - Enable GCP provider

• terraform init gcp/consul

Step 5 - Run script

• terraform apply gcp/consul
• SSH to your node via GCP UI SSH and a Consul dev process will be there and can be checked with (consul info)

Bingo!