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Running a Local Consul Agent while Developing in WSL2

While working with DevOps projects that utilize a Consul KV store and it’s service discovery features, I found it useful to replicate a local agent to test against. To that end, getting a Consul agent up and running and accessible from both Windows and WSL2 proved usesful. TBH, this is a brittle setup; it’s far easier to just manage your Consul environment variables to point where needed instead. Consul Agent Setup in Windows Download the Consul binaries from Hashicorp for Windows here.

March 21, 2022 Read
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Getting Up and Running with WSL2 in Windows 11

I slimmed down my workflow for Linux container development upon the release of Windows 11 – I took the release as an opportunity to clean up my local PC and start from scratch. This won’t be a typical workflow for users performing a standard upgrade. Before beginning, make sure you understand the caveats and limitations of using this method. Notably there is quite a bit more complexity to make local bind mounts for Docker volumes.

November 22, 2021 Read