I am trying to start a Consul Client and associate it to a Consul cluster.
For this I am using following command
consul agent -config-dir /apps/consul/config -node $hostname -datacenter=$dcenter
The version is 1.0.3
The ACL token is mentioned in the config file.
Question:
Is it possible to pass on the ACL token through any other mean except config file to the client? If yes, how?
Hi @tussinha,
Actually it is not possible to configure the Consul client using environment variables (see https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options#environment-variables). The token configuration must be specified in the agent’s configuration file.
Would you mind sharing a bit more info on your environment, and why you’d like to provide this config as an environment variable instead of statically in the file?