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Marathon to Consul bridge for metadata discovery.

marathon-consul takes information provided by the Marathon event bus and forwards it to Consul's KV tree. It also re-syncs all the information from Marathon to Consul on startup.

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Comparison to other metadata bridges

haproxy-marathon-bridge

This project has similar goals (to enable metadata usage in templates.) However, haproxy-marathon-bridge uses cron instead of the event bus, so it only updates once per minute. It is also limited to haproxy, where marathon-consul in conjunction with consul-template can update anything you can write a configuration file for.

Building

docker build -t marathon-consul .

Running

marathon-consul can be run in a Docker container via Marathon. If your Marathon service is registered in consul, you can use .service.consul to find them, otherwise change the vaules for your environment:

curl -X POST -d @marathon-consul.json -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://marathon.service.consul:8080/v2/apps'

Where marathon-consul.json is similar to (replacing the image with your image):

{
  "id": "marathon-consul",
  "args": ["--registry=https://consul.service.consul:8500"],
  "container": {
    "type": "DOCKER",
    "docker": {
      "image": "{{ marathon_consul_image }}:{{ marathon_consul_image_tag }}",
      "network": "BRIDGE",
      "portMappings": [{"containerPort": 4000, "hostPort": 4000, "protocol": "tcp"}]
    }
  },
  "constraints": [["hostname", "UNIQUE"]],
  "ports": [4000],
  "healthChecks": [{
    "protocol": "HTTP",
    "path": "/health",
    "portIndex": 0
  }],
  "instances": 1,
  "cpus": 0.1,
  "mem": 128
}

You can also add options to authenticate against Consul.

If your version of Marathon is 0.9.0 or newer, no further setup is required. Marathon-consul will autodetect the /v2/events endpoint and use it to update Consul.

If your version of Marathon does not have the event bus endpoint, you must configure an event subscription. The Marathon event bus should point to `/events``. You can set up the event subscription with a call similar to this one:

curl -X POST 'http://marathon.service.consul:8080/v2/eventSubscriptions?callbackUrl=http://marathon-consul.service.consul:4000/events'

Usage

Options

Argument Default Description
listen :4000 accept connections at this address
registry http://localhost:8500 root location of the Consul registry
registry-auth None basic auth for the Consul registry
registry-datacenter None datacenter to use in writes
registry-token None Consul registry ACL token
registry-noverify False don't verify registry SSL certificates
registry-prefix marathon prefix for all values sent to the registry
log-level info log level: panic, fatal, error, warn, info, or debug
marathon-location localhost:8080 Marathon location (for resyncing)
marathon-protocol http Marathon prototocol (http or https)
marathon-username None Marathon username for basic auth
marathon-password None Marathon password for basic auth

Adding New Root Certificate Authorities

If you're running Consul behind an SSL proxy like Nginx, you're probably going to want to add the CA for your certificate to the trusted store in the container so you can avoid using --registry-noverify. For that purpose, any certificates added in a volume at /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/ will be added to the root certificates in the container on boot.

Endpoints

Endpoint Description
/health healthcheck - returns OK
/events event sink - returns OK if all keys are set in an event, error message otherwise

Keys and Values

The entire app configuration is forwarded to Consul as a JSON blob. It might looks something like this (example from the Marathon documentation):

{
    "id": "/product/service/my-app",
    "cmd": "env && sleep 300",
    "args": ["/bin/sh", "-c", "env && sleep 300"],
    "container": {
        "type": "DOCKER",
        "docker": {
            "image": "group/image",
            "network": "BRIDGE",
            "portMappings": [
                {
                    "containerPort": 8080,
                    "hostPort": 0,
                    "servicePort": 9000,
                    "protocol": "tcp"
                },
                {
                    "containerPort": 161,
                    "hostPort": 0,
                    "protocol": "udp"
                }
            ],
            "privileged": false,
            "parameters": [
                { "key": "a-docker-option", "value": "xxx" },
                { "key": "b-docker-option", "value": "yyy" }
            ]
        },
        "volumes": [
            {
                "containerPath": "/etc/a",
                "hostPath": "/var/data/a",
                "mode": "RO"
            },
            {
                "containerPath": "/etc/b",
                "hostPath": "/var/data/b",
                "mode": "RW"
            }
        ]
    },
    "cpus": 1.5,
    "mem": 256.0,
    "env": {
        "LD_LIBRARY_PATH": "/usr/local/lib/myLib"
    },
    "executor": "",
    "constraints": [
        ["attribute", "OPERATOR", "value"]
    ],
    "labels": {
        "environment": "staging"
    },
    "healthChecks": [
        {
            "protocol": "HTTP",
            "path": "/health",
            "gracePeriodSeconds": 3,
            "intervalSeconds": 10,
            "portIndex": 0,
            "timeoutSeconds": 10,
            "maxConsecutiveFailures": 3
        },
        {
            "protocol": "TCP",
            "gracePeriodSeconds": 3,
            "intervalSeconds": 5,
            "portIndex": 1,
            "timeoutSeconds": 5,
            "maxConsecutiveFailures": 3
        },
        {
            "protocol": "COMMAND",
            "command": { "value": "curl -f -X GET http://$HOST:$PORT0/health" },
            "maxConsecutiveFailures": 3
        }
    ],
    "instances": 3,
    "ports": [
        8080,
        9000
    ],
    "backoffSeconds": 1,
    "backoffFactor": 1.15,
    "uris": [
        "https://raw.github.com/mesosphere/marathon/master/README.md"
    ],
    "dependencies": ["/product/db/mongo", "/product/db", "../../db"],
    "upgradeStrategy": {
        "minimumHealthCapacity": 0.5,
        "maximumOverCapacity": 0.2
    },
    "version": "2014-03-01T23:29:30.158Z"
}

License

marathon-consul is released under the Apache 2.0 license (see LICENSE)