For the latest stable version, please use Spring Cloud Consul 4.2.0!

Install Consul

Please see the installation documentation for instructions on how to install Consul.

Consul Agent

A Consul Agent client must be available to all Spring Cloud Consul applications. By default, the Agent client is expected to be at localhost:8500. See the Agent documentation for specifics on how to start an Agent client and how to connect to a cluster of Consul Agent Servers. Start a development agent according to the documentation above.

This will start an agent in server mode on port 8500, with the ui available at localhost:8500