Consul configuration on multiple node

Question

In consul documentation it says that the service configuration files should be stored in /etc/consul.d/ directory.

I am running a 3 nodes cluster, do I have to cpy the consul.d on each node or will the sync will be done inside the cluster ?

Answer 1

You should store your service configuration files only on that node where it's really started, 'cause agent endpoints are used to interact with the local Consul agent only. After that it will synchronized with the cluster automatically.

So, if you have service started on node1, you should store config file for this service only in node1 /etc/consul.d/ directory.