README.rst

consulbacks3

This package is preset on pypi at consulbacks3 This is the package to create consul backup , zip it and push the same to the s3 for the backup purpose.

The package creates simple yml files which contains key value pairs seperated by space colon space i.e " : " .

Installation instruction

• Install the package on the server where consul is installed.
• sudo pip install consulbackups3
• Run consulbacks3-configure to configure and enter the below details and save the settings .
  • AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
  • AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
  • BUCKET_NAME
  • CONSUL_DATA_URL (default is - “http://localhost:8500/v1/kv/?recurse”)
• Run consulbacks3 to take backup of all of the key-value pairs .

Note: You will need aws access_key and secret which have access to the corresponding bucket.

Things to do :

• Documentation at readthedocs
• Restore/write to consul from the backup file