Systemd fails to start consul: bind: cannot assign requested address

[Sean Bollin]

When I reboot the aws ec2 instance I get:

==> Starting Consul agent...

==> Error starting agent: Failed to start Consul server: Failed to start RPC layer: listen tcp 10.0.5.177:8300: bind: cannot assign requested address

Systemd is failing to start consul up on the reboot, however if I manually type "systemctl start consul" it works fine: I don't get the assign error.  Any ideas?

Here's my setup:

[Unit]

Description=Consul Agent

[Service]

Environment="GOMAXPROCS=`nproc`"

User=consul

Group=consul

ExecStart=/bin/sh -c '/opt/consul/bin/consul agent -server -config-dir /etc/consul.d -config-file=/etc/consul.conf >> /var/log/consul 2>&1'

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

[Sean Bollin]

Fixed this by putting the following in my unit file:

Wants=network-online.target

After=network-online.target