How to access externally to consul UI

Question

How can I access to consul UI externally?

I want to access consul UI writing

<ANY_MASTER_OR_SLAVE_NODE_IP>:8500

I have try doing a ssh tunnel to acces: ssh -N -f -L 8500:localhost:8500 [email protected]

Then if I access http://localhost:8500 It works, but it is not what I want. I need to access externally, without ssh tunnel.

My config.json file is the next:

{ "bind_addr":"172.16.8.216", "server": false, "datacenter": "nyc2", "data_dir": "/var/consul", "ui_dir": "/home/ikerlan/dist", "log_level": "INFO", "enable_syslog": true, "start_join": ["172.16.8.211","172.16.8.212","172.16.8.213"] } 

Any help? Thanks

Answer 1

Add

{   "client_addr": "0.0.0.0" } 

to your configuration or add the option -client 0.0.0.0 to the command line of consul to make your Web UI accessible from the outside (see the docs for more information).

Please note that this will also make your Consul REST API accessible from the outside. Depending on your environment you might want to activate Consul's ACLs to restrict access.

Answer 2

You can use socat in this case.

socat -d -d TCP-L:8500,bind=172.16.93.128,fork TCP:localhost:8500 &

where 172.16.93.12 is my IP.