Get the binary directly from GitHub releases or download the code and compile it with make. It requires Go 1.8 or later.

Kube2consul runs in a kubernetes cluster by default. It is able to work out of cluster if an absolute path to the kubeconfig file is provided.

Kube2consul is able to detect any endpoint update on k8s and add/remove it to/from consul. It can also read service annotations, below an example of kube service with kube2consul compatible annotations

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: nginx-svc
  annotations:
    SERVICE_80_NAME: nginx-http
    SERVICE_443_NAME: nginx-https
    SERVICE_443_TAGS: "enable_tls, key=value"
    SERVICE_8080_IGNORE: "true"
  labels:
    run: svc-nginx
spec:
  type: NodePort
  ports:
  - port: 80
    protocol: TCP
    name: http
  - port: 443
    protocol: TCP
    name: https
  - port: 8080
    protocol: TCP
    name: ignore
  selector:
    run: my-nginx