Feature request: Loading external service definition from files

[jardleex]

Hello,

Request

It would be great if consul-esm could load external service definitions from files on startup and on a reload.

Background

Right now external service have to be registered, updated and deleted via API. This requires the user to have/create something which does this for him. As we do not have such thing it would be error prone and time consuming to create it.
We run manage Consul with Puppet and handle all our service with simple json files in a configuration directory for Consul. This makes handling them very easy for use. Placing, updating and deleting files plus a Consul reload does the job.
Having this for consul-esm and external services would be great!

Feel free to move/migrate this request to Consul itself if it fits better there.
I created this request after a exchange wiht @lornasong at https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/configure-external-nodes-and-services/7033/5

This request also somehow relates to #42

Best regards and thanks

Jard

[jardleex]

Hello,

I just wanted to bring this back to attention. We currently have the demand for external services in our landscape again and I'd still like deploy/add them to Consul-ESM via files instead via API.