Once the command has executed successfully the Consul agent starts running in server mode, giving us the following output:
We can also list the members of the Consul cluster by executing the following command:
$ consul members
This will give us the following result:
Because Consul can be run either in server or client mode with at least one server, to keep the setup at a bare minimum we have started our agent in server mode, though it is not recommended because there are chances of data loss in a failure scenario.
Moreover, browsing to http://localhost:8500/ui/ will display the Consul web UI where we can view all the services and nodes, as follows:
