Resolve EC2 IP running a Consul Agent through API

Author: Nicolas Huray

consul/etc/services.d/consul-template/run

@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ if [ -z ${RUN_ON_AWS} ]; then
 else
     # Resolve the EC2 IP running a Consul Agent through API
     # This a workaround for this issue : https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-agent/issues/185
-    CONSUL_URL=$(curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-hostname)
+    HOST_IP=$(curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-hostname)
+    CONSUL_URL="$HOST_IP:8500"
 fi
 
 if [ -d /etc/consul-template/conf ]; then