Allowing DNS lookups with Hashicorp Consul + ACLs enabled

I’ve recently been experimenting with Hashicorp’s Consul in my home infrastructure because I want to use it to provide service discovery and automatic DNS provisioning when I create Proxmox instances with Terraform. Consul is a bit of a hefty beast to get to grips with and getting DNS lookups working when you have ACLs enabled can be a little tricky - it’s taken me a day or two of going round in circles to figure this one out....

September 9, 2021 · 2 min · Simon Weald