diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 485ed36e..030e6009 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -5,10 +5,12 @@ before_install:
   - git config credential.helper "store --file=.git/credentials"
   - echo "https://$GH_TOKEN:@github.com" > .git/credentials
   - gem install asciidoctor
+  - ./src/main/bash/travis_install_consul.sh
 install:
 - mvn --settings .settings.xml install -P docs -q -U -DskipTests=true -Dmaven.test.redirectTestOutputToFile=true
 - ./docs/src/main/asciidoc/ghpages.sh
 script:
+- ./consul agent -server -bootstrap-expect 1 -data-dir /tmp/consul &
 #TODO: change install to deploy
 - '[ "${TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST}" != "false" ] || mvn --settings .settings.xml install -nsu -Dmaven.test.redirectTestOutputToFile=true'
 - '[ "${TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST}" = "false" ] || mvn --settings .settings.xml install -nsu -Dmaven.test.redirectTestOutputToFile=true'
diff --git a/run_consul.sh b/src/main/bash/local_run_consul.sh
similarity index 66%
rename from run_consul.sh
rename to src/main/bash/local_run_consul.sh
index 6d64e781..f3aac7f6 100755
--- a/run_consul.sh
+++ b/src/main/bash/local_run_consul.sh
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-consul agent -server -bootstrap-expect 1 -data-dir /tmp/consul -ui-dir `dirname $0`/consul_ui
+consul agent -server -bootstrap-expect 1 -data-dir /tmp/consul -ui-dir `dirname $0`/../../../consul_ui
diff --git a/src/main/bash/travis_install_consul.sh b/src/main/bash/travis_install_consul.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..62a782e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/bash/travis_install_consul.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+CONSUL_VER="0.5.0_linux_amd64"
+# cleanup
+rm "${CONSUL_VER}.*"
+rm "consul"
+# install consul
+wget "https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/consul/${CONSUL_VER}.zip"
+unzip "${CONSUL_VER}.zip"
+# check
+./consul --version
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