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Install Consul
Please see the installation documentation for instructions on how to install Consul.
Consul Agent
A Consul Agent client must be available to all Spring Cloud Consul applications.  By default, the Agent client is expected to be at localhost:8500.  See the Agent documentation for specifics on how to start an Agent client and how to connect to a cluster of Consul Agent Servers.  Start a development agent according to the documentation above.
This will start an agent in server mode on port 8500, with the ui available at localhost:8500