Consul-Terraform-Sync Command (CLI)

Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS) is controlled via an easy to use command-line interface (CLI). CTS is only a single command-line application: consul-terraform-sync. CTS can be run as a daemon and execute CLI commands. When CTS is run as a daemon, it acts as a server to the CLI commands. Users can use the commands to interact and modify the daemon as it is running. The complete list of commands is in the navigation to the left. Both the daemon and commands return a non-zero exit status on error.

Daemon

Running CTS as a daemon without using a command is deprecated in CTS 0.6.0 and will be removed at a much later date in a major release. For information on the preferred way to run CTS as a daemon review the start command docs

When CTS runs as a daemon, there is no default configuration to start CTS. You must set a configuration flag -config-file or -config-dir. For example:

$ consul-terraform-sync start -config-file=config.hcl

To review a list of available flags, use the -help or -h flag.

Commands

In addition to running the daemon, CTS has a set of commands that act as a client to the daemon server. The commands provide a user-friendly experience interacting with the daemon. The commands use the CTS APIs but does not correspond one-to-one with it. Please review the individual commands in the left navigation for more details.

To get help for a command, run: consul-terraform-sync <command> -h

CLI Structure

CTS commands follow the below structure

consul-terraform-sync <command> [options] [args]

• options: Flags to specify additional settings. There are general options that can be used across all commands and command-specific options.
• args: Required arguments specific to a commands

Example:

consul-terraform-sync task disable -http-addr=http://localhost:2000 task_a

Autocompletion

The consul-terraform-sync command features opt-in autocompletion for flags, subcommands, and arguments (where supported).

To enable autocompletion, run:

$ consul-terraform-sync -autocomplete-install

After you install autocomplete, you must restart your shell for the change to take effect.

When you start typing a CTS command, press the <tab> key to show a list of available completions. To show available flag completes, type -<tab>.

Autocompletion will query the running CTS server to return helpful argument suggestions. For example, for the task disable command, autocompletion will return the names of all enabled tasks that can be disabled.

When autocompletion makes the query to the running CTS server, it will also use any CTS_* environment variables (for example CTS_ADDRESS) set on the CTS server.

Example: Use autocomplete to discover how to disable a task

Assume a tab is typed at the end of each prompt line:

$ consul-terraform-sync
start  task
$ consul-terraform-sync task
create   delete   disable   enable
$ consul task disable
task_name_a   task_name_b   task_name_c

General Options

Below are options that can be used across all commands: