Nomad

Nomad is a container orchestration tool similar to Kubernetes, first released in September 2015. Nomad ships as a single binary, both for clients and servers, and requires no external services for coordination or storage.

Basic commands

• sudo nomad agent -dev &

nomad node status
ID        DC   Name   Class   Drain  Eligibility  Status
181a582b  dc1  nomad  <none>  false  eligible     ready

nomad server members
Name          Address    Port  Status  Leader  Protocol  Build  Datacenter  Region
nomad.global  127.0.0.1  4648  alive   true    2         0.7.0  dc1         global

• nomad job init
• nomad job run example.nomad
• nomad status example
• nomad status

Exercices

• Install Nomad following official documentation: https://www.nomadproject.io/intro/getting-started/install.html, you will need Vagrant installed.

See also

• Template:Container orchestation
• Consul

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/nomad-announcement

https://www.nomadproject.io/intro/index.html