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Expand Up @@ -271,6 +271,17 @@ Include `consul::ui` in your node's `run_list`:
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#### Getting Started
To bootstrap a consul cluster follow the following steps:

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1. Bootstrap a few (preferablly 3 nodes) to be your consul servers, these will be the KV masters.
2. Put `node['consul']['servers'] =["Array of the bootstrapped servers ips or dns names"]` in your environment.
3. Apply the consul cookbook to these nodes with `node['consul']['service_mode'] = 'cluster'` (I put this in this in a CONSUL_MASTER role).
4. Let these machines converge, once you can run `consul members` and get a list of all of the servers your ready to move on
5. Apply the consul cookbook to the rest of your nodes with `node['consul']['service_mode'] = 'client'` (I put this in the environment)
6. Start added services and checks to your cookbooks.
7. If you want to get values out of consul to power your chef, curl localhost:8500/v1/kv/key/path?raw in your cookbook.

## Authors

Created and maintained by [John Bellone][3] [@johnbellone][2] (<jbellone@bloomberg.net>) and a growing community of [contributors][4].
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