Django projects can now reference Consul's key/value store in setting setting.py variables.

Need to install Consul. Installation guide found here http://www.consul.io/intro/getting-started/install.html

# Mainly, install consul (Mac OS X) via brew
brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
brew cask install consul

Create a /etc/consul.d directory

sudo mkdir /etc/consul.d

Copy django_example/consul_example/web00.django.test.json to /etc/consul.d/web00.django.test.json

cat /etc/consul.d/web00.django.test.json
{
    "service":{
	"name": "web00.django.test",
	"tags": ["django"],
	"port": 8000
    }
}

Start up consul server. Here is the guide for starting consul http://www.consul.io/intro/getting-started/agent.html

consul agent -server -bootstrap-expect 1 -data-dir /tmp/consul -config-dir /etc/consul.d

Execute django_example/consul_example/setup_env.sh to load example settings.py variables into Consul

./django_example/consul_example/setup_env.sh

Setup django environment and run server

cd django_example
pip install -r requirements.txt
./manage.py runserver

Now navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000/env/ in your web browser or use this curl command to view Consul backed environment variables

echo $(curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/env/ | sed 's/<br\/>/\\n/g')