consul-backinator mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• consul-backinator

Projektgeschichte

The upstream README describes consul-backinator as a flexible Consul KV backup and restore tool written in Go using the official Consul API. Its first tagged GitHub release is labeled v1.0 and was published in June 2016.

The tool grew around practical backup concerns: gzip-compressed JSON payloads, AES-256 encryption, HMAC-SHA256 validation, path transformation, S3 support, Docker images, Nomad usage, ACL backup, and prepared-query backup.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Adoption appears niche and ops-focused. The README documents Homebrew installation, go get, source builds, Docker Hub images, and Nomad job usage, while the input package metadata lists only Homebrew among package managers.

Wie es verwendet wird

Operators use the backup, restore, and dump subcommands. The README documents Consul connection settings through flags and environment variables, optional S3 URIs, encryption keys, signatures, ACL files, prepared queries, and destructive restore safeguards.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

consul-backinator is significant as a package because it fills a gap around Consul disaster recovery workflows. It also shows the 2010s pattern of shipping a Go ops tool simultaneously as a single binary, Homebrew formula, Docker image, and Nomad job.

Zeitleiste

• 2016: GitHub release v1.0 is tagged as the first tagged release.
• 2016: README examples show backup output dated May 2016 and document Homebrew, Go, Docker, and Nomad installation paths.

Related projects

• Consul is the backing service.
• The README credits HashiCorp's Consul daemon, Consul API, and Go package, and mentions go-discover for cloud node discovery.

Quellen

• https://github.com/myENA/consul-backinator
• https://github.com/myENA/consul-backinator/releases/tag/v1.0