nginx-consul-template

a simple dockerized loadbalancer for consul infrastructure

Run Consul

docker run -it -h node \  
    -p 8500:8500 \
    -p 53:53/udp \
    progrium/consul \
    -server \
    -bootstrap \
    -advertise $DOCKER_IP

Run Registrator

docker run -it \  
    -v /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock \
    -h $DOCKER_IP progrium/registrator \
    consul://$DOCKER_IP:8500  

Run the loadbalancer

docker run \  
    -e "CONSUL=$DOCKER_IP:8500" \
    -e "SERVICE=myservice-name" \
    -e "PROTOCOL=http" \
    -e "REVERSE=service-name/" \
    -e "METHOD=least_conn;"\
    -p 80:80 davinci1976/nginx-consul-template

Run your service myservice-name

docker run -it \  
    -e "SERVICE_NAME=simple" \
    -p 8001:80 python/server

Thanks to

Graham Jenson https://www.airpair.com/scalable-architecture-with-docker-consul-and-nginx