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Use local Consul instance in deploy walkthrough

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As per hashicorp/vault#217, demo.consul.io prevents sessions from being
created, which means you can't use it as a backend for Vault.
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Sheldon Hearn 2015-05-28 14:11:34 +02:00
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@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ An example configuration is shown below:
```javascript
backend "consul" {
address = "demo.consul.io:80"
address = "127.0.0.1:8500"
path = "vault"
}

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@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ file for Vault is relatively simple. An example is shown below:
```javascript
backend "consul" {
address = "demo.consul.io:80"
address = "127.0.0.1:8500"
path = "vault"
}
@ -45,14 +45,16 @@ Within the configuration file, there are two primary configurations:
API requests. In the example above we're listening on localhost port
8200 without TLS.
For now, copy and paste the configuration above. Change the `path`
for Consul to something unique for you to make sure you don't overlap
with anyone else following this guide. We'll use this demo cluster to
learn how to deploy Vault.
For now, copy and paste the configuration above to `example.hcl`. It will
configure Vault to expect an instance of Consul running locally.
~> **Warning:** The demo consul cluster deletes its data every 30 minutes.
If this happens while you're learning to use Vault, you'll lose your data.
Just restart Vault and start over, knowing you have another 30 minutes.
Starting a local Consul instance takes only a few minutes. Just follow the
[Consul Getting Started Guide](https://www.consul.io/intro/getting-started/install.html)
up to the point where you have installed Consul and started it with this command:
```shell
$ consul agent -server -bootstrap-expect 1 -data-dir /tmp/consul
```
## Starting the Server