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Consul ACL Role List

Command: consul acl role list

Corresponding HTTP API Endpoint: [GET] /v1/acl/roles

The acl role list command lists all roles. By default it will not show metadata.

The table below shows this command's required ACLs. Configuration of blocking queries and agent caching are not supported from commands, but may be from the corresponding HTTP endpoint.

ACL Required
acl:read

Usage

Usage: consul acl role list

Command Options

  • -meta - Indicates that role metadata such as the content hash and Raft indices should be shown for each entry.

  • -format={pretty|json} - Command output format. The default value is pretty.

Enterprise Options

  • -partition=<string> - Enterprise Specifies the partition to query. If not provided, the partition is inferred from the request's ACL token, or defaults to the default partition.
  • -namespace=<string> - Specifies the namespace to query. If not provided, the namespace will be inferred from the request's ACL token, or will default to the default namespace. Namespaces are a Consul Enterprise feature added in v1.7.0.

API Options

  • -ca-file=<value> - Path to a CA file to use for TLS when communicating with Consul. This can also be specified via the CONSUL_CACERT environment variable.

  • -ca-path=<value> - Path to a directory of CA certificates to use for TLS when communicating with Consul. This can also be specified via the CONSUL_CAPATH environment variable.

  • -client-cert=<value> - Path to a client cert file to use for TLS when verify_incoming is enabled. This can also be specified via the CONSUL_CLIENT_CERT environment variable.

  • -client-key=<value> - Path to a client key file to use for TLS when verify_incoming is enabled. This can also be specified via the CONSUL_CLIENT_KEY environment variable.

  • -http-addr=<addr> - Address of the Consul agent with the port. This can be an IP address or DNS address, but it must include the port. This can also be specified via the CONSUL_HTTP_ADDR environment variable. In Consul 0.8 and later, the default value is http://127.0.0.1:8500, and https can optionally be used instead. The scheme can also be set to HTTPS by setting the environment variable CONSUL_HTTP_SSL=true. This may be a unix domain socket using unix:///path/to/socket if the agent is configured to listen that way.

  • -tls-server-name=<value> - The server name to use as the SNI host when connecting via TLS. This can also be specified via the CONSUL_TLS_SERVER_NAME environment variable.

  • -token=<value> - ACL token to use in the request. This can also be specified via the CONSUL_HTTP_TOKEN environment variable. If unspecified, the query will default to the token of the Consul agent at the HTTP address.

  • -token-file=<value> - File containing the ACL token to use in the request instead of one specified via the -token argument or CONSUL_HTTP_TOKEN environment variable. This can also be specified via the CONSUL_HTTP_TOKEN_FILE environment variable.

  • -datacenter=<name> - Name of the datacenter to query. If unspecified, the query will default to the datacenter of the Consul agent at the HTTP address.

  • -stale - Permit any Consul server (non-leader) to respond to this request. This allows for lower latency and higher throughput, but can result in stale data. This option has no effect on non-read operations. The default value is false.

Examples

Default listing.

$ consul acl role list
web-crawler:
   ID:           57147d87-6bf7-f794-1a6e-7d038c4e4ae9
   Description:  web crawler updated role
   Policies:
      2f8f99c7-edd9-2f09-7e4b-a1f519eb4fc2 - crawler-kv
   Service Identities:
      crawler (Datacenters: all)
archiver:
   ID:           a365fdc9-ac71-e754-0645-7ab6bd747301
   Description:  archiver role
   Service Identities:
      archiver (Datacenters: dc2)

Show Metadata.

$ consul acl role list -meta
web-crawler:
   ID:           57147d87-6bf7-f794-1a6e-7d038c4e4ae9
   Description:  web crawler updated role
   Hash:         3bd7c15a77c8d1d45c515378f1176df2e6f76d9c96d541f96de8272ff4dba7b5
   Create Index: 18
   Modify Index: 39
   Policies:
      2f8f99c7-edd9-2f09-7e4b-a1f519eb4fc2 - crawler-kv
   Service Identities:
      crawler (Datacenters: all)
archiver:
   ID:           a365fdc9-ac71-e754-0645-7ab6bd747301
   Description:  archiver role
   Hash:         9af397ea92ee901366d6333c658195be16f4aee8aa64d2b529b921c879b70a58
   Create Index: 22
   Modify Index: 22
   Service Identities:
      archiver (Datacenters: dc2)