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Consul Services Export

Command: consul services export

The services export command exports a service from one admin partition or cluster peer to another. This command can be used in lieu of creating or updating the corresponding exported-services configuration entry. Running the command multiple times with the same arguments results in a no-op.

Usage: consul services export [options] -name <service name> -consumer-peers <other cluster name>

  Export a service to a peered cluster.

      $ consul services export -name=web -consumer-peers=other-cluster

  Use the -consumer-partitions flag instead of -consumer-peers to export to a different partition in the same cluster.

      $ consul services export -name=web -consumer-partitions=other-partition

  Additional flags and more advanced use cases are detailed below.

Command options

  • -name=<string> - (Required) The name of the service to export.

  • -consumer-peers=<string> - (Required) A comma-separated list of cluster peers to export the service to. In Consul Enterprise, this flag is optional when -consumer-partitions is specified.

Enterprise options

  • -consumer-partitions=<string> - A comma-separated list of admin partitions within the same datacenter to export the service to. This flag is optional when -consumer-peers is specified.
  • -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.

Examples

In the following example, the consul services export command makes the web service available to services running in a cluster named dc2 that has a previously-established cluster peering connection.

$ consul services export -name=web -consumer-peers=dc2

In the following example, the consul services export command makes the web service located in the namespace ns1 and the admin partition alpha to other admin partitions named beta and delta.

$ consul services export -name=web -namespace=ns1 -partition=alpha -consumer-partitions=beta,delta