Consul: Feature request: Debian package + repository

Created on 19 Apr 2014 · 10Comments · Source: hashicorp/consul

I want to start by saying I really appreciate the excellent work hashicorp are doing.

It would be great if you could consider hosting a Debian package repo for Consul, this makes it much easier to manage updates and automated deployment.

Personally I find reprepo a very quick-and-easy tool for managing repositories - quick howto here: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=mirrorer/reprepro.git;a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=docs/short-howto

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sammcj

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For anyone interested, I just started maintaining a Launchpad PPA for Ubuntu at https://launchpad.net/~bcandrea/+archive/ubuntu/consul. It currently targets LTS releases (12.04/14.04) which are the ones I need, but I might consider adding intermediate releases as well.

I use a (more or less) simple Makefile to produce the package - you can find it at https://github.com/bcandrea/consul-deb if you are curious.

bcandrea on 25 Aug 2014

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There is also this service; https://packagecloud.io/ might come in handy.

lsc on 24 Apr 2014

While I don't agree that it's at all difficult to host an apt repo, that certainly does look like a good project.

sammcj on 24 Apr 2014

I wouldn't say its difficult, it is just _another thing_ to maintain. Death by thousand paper cuts comes quickly with these things.

mitchellh on 24 Apr 2014

@sammcj Not difficult, but might be a nuisance. Essentially what @mitchellh said.

lsc on 24 Apr 2014

@sammcj Yeah I agree with @mitchellh. It's just yet another thing for us to maintain.

armon on 30 Apr 2014

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I use a (more or less) simple Makefile to produce the package - you can find it at https://github.com/bcandrea/consul-deb if you are curious.

bcandrea on 25 Aug 2014

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thanks, @bcandrea!

jm3 on 11 Dec 2014

The influxdb project makes good use of fpm for simultaneously building rpms, debs, and tars at the same time. https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/blob/master/package.sh

It removes all details of maintaining the differences.

allen13 on 6 Oct 2015

consul is a single binary, for easy (re-)distribution and handling.
Packaging as .deb is just a three-liner with fpm:

wget -N https://releases.hashicorp.com/consul/0.6.0/consul_0.6.0_linux_amd64.zip
unzip -o consul_0.6.0_linux_amd64.zip
fpm --force --verbose -s dir -t deb -n consul -v 0.6 --url=http://consul.io --vendor=HashiCorp  --description "A distributed service discovery tool" ./consul=/usr/local/bin/consul

If you have not installed fpm yet, run gem install fpm before.

geekq on 29 Dec 2015

@geekq This assumes you have your own build infrastructure, can trigger it on updates to some public URI address and don't want to parametise anything like the version. Or are you really suggesting someone would type those commands out every time one wants to upgrade consul?