Resources

Resources for learning Nomad

• HashiCorp Forums

Nomad Docs

• HCL2 Reference
• Nomad Vocabulary
• Variable Interpolation
• Filesystem
• Nomad Networking Demystified
• Using Prometheus to Monitor Nomad Metrics
• Deployment Guide
• Security
  • Enable TLS Encryption
  • Nomad ACL System Fundamentals
  • Secure Nomad Jobs with Consul Service Mesh
• Task Drivers
  • Docker Driver docs
• Monitoring
  • Observe Nomad’s Event Stream

Example Repositories

• perrymanuk/hashi-homelab
  • Aims to be a simple but flexible homelab setup
  • Components:
    • Scheduler: Nomad
    • Service catalog/registry: Consul
    • Service Mesh: HAProxy2
    • DNS: CoreDNS
    • Monitoring: Prometheus, Alertmanager, Telegraf, Blackbox-exporter and Grafana
    • Container Registry: Docker-Registry
• https://github.com/aldoborrero/hashi-homelab
• https://github.com/jrasell/nomadfiles
• https://github.com/assareh/home-lab
• https://github.com/drewbailey/nomad-deploy-notifier
• https://github.com/nunchistudio/hashibox
  • Vagrant environment to simulate a highly-available Cloud with Consul, Nomad, and Vault. OSS & Enterprise versions supported. Optional support for Waypoint.
• https://github.com/jsiebens/hashi-up
  • Bootstrap HashiCorp Consul, Nomad, or Vault over SSH < 1 minute
• https://github.com/cyriltovena/observability-nomad
• https://github.com/hashicorp/learn-nomad-edge

Tutorials

• Hashicorp Learn - Nomad
  • Schedule Edge Services with Native Service Discovery

Blog Posts

• My First Nomad Cluster
  • Steps through setting up a production cluster with:
    • 3 server nodes
    • Publicly accessible
    • Reasonably secure
    • Can run containerized jobs

HashiCorp Blog

• Building Resilient Infrastructure with Nomad: Job Lifecycle
• Building an Event-Based HA Architecture with Nomad and Consul

atodorov.me

• Logging on Nomad and log aggregation with Loki
• Using Traefik on Nomad
• Why you should take a look at Nomad before jumping on Kubernetes

johansiebens.dev

• A Multi Cluster and Multi Orchestrator home lab
• Monitoring Nomad with Prometheus and Thanos
• Consul Service Mesh across a private Raspberry Pi and a public Cloud
• Scale out your Raspberry Pi Nomad cluster to the cloud
• Building a Nomad cluster on Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu server
• Deploying a highly-available Nomad cluster with hashi-up!

Mike Polinowski

• Hashicorp Nomad Refresher
• Hashicorp Nomad - Working with Ports
• Hashicorp Nomad Sidecar Pattern

Reference

• Using Ansible & Nomad for a homelab
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• YouTube Videos
  • From Zero to WOW! with Nomad
    • Running a job
    • Scaling up applications
    • Add Consul (via raw_exec ) and using it for service discovery
    • Add Fabio (via raw_exec ) and using it for load balancing
    • Canary deployments
  • Adding Observability to HashiCorp Nomad Applications with Grafana
    • https://github.com/cyriltovena/observability-nomad
  • Nomad as a HashiCorp Operating System
• Blog Posts
• The Dojo Series - Nomad
• Just-in-Time Nomad: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding HashiCorp Nomad
• Just-in-Time Nomad: Running Traefik on Nomad with HashiQube
• Just-in-Time Nomad: Templating HashiCorp Nomad Jobs with Nomad Packs
• Nomad Tips and Tricks
• Hashicorp Nomad Refresher - Security
• Securing Nomad, Consul and Gluster
• Introduction to Nomad Workshop
• Advanced Nomad Workshop
  • Nomad Encryption
• Nomad deploy result action
• Ansible role for Nomad
• HashiCorp Nomad Field Workshops

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Last update: August 12, 2023
Created: June 3, 2023