Nomad – Container orchestration example for Dev environment

#Install nomad

-Download the stable release form https://www.nomadproject.io/downloads

wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/nomad/1.0.1/nomad_1.0.1_linux_amd64.zip

unzip nomad_1.0.1_linux_amd64.zip

mv nomad /usr/local/bin/

#start nomad in dev mode

nomad agent -dev

nomad node status

#Install docker https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/centos/

yum-config-manager \
    --add-repo \
    https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

yum install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

systemctl start docker
systemctl enable docker

#Create simple nginx job file (nginx.nomad)

job "nginx" {
  datacenters = ["dc1"]
  type = "service"

  update {
    max_parallel = 1
    min_healthy_time = "10s"
    healthy_deadline = "3m"
    progress_deadline = "10m"
    auto_revert = false

    canary = 0
  }
  migrate {
    max_parallel = 1
    health_check = "checks"
    min_healthy_time = "10s"
    healthy_deadline = "5m"
  }
  group "cache" {
    count = 1

    network {
      port "nginx-port" {
        to = 80
      }
    }

    service {
      name = "nginx-port"
      tags = ["nginx", "web"]
      port = "nginx-port"

    }

    restart {
      attempts = 2
      interval = "30m"
      delay = "15s"
      mode = "fail"
    }

    ephemeral_disk {
      size = 300
    }


    task "nginx" {
      driver = "docker"

      config {
        image = "nginx"
        ports = ["nginx-port"]
      }

      resources {
        cpu    = 500
        memory = 256
      }

    }
  }
}

#Nomand commands for Run,Stop, job status and logs

nomad job status

nomad job run nginx.nomad

nomad job stop nginx

nomad job status nginx

nomad alloc status <Allocations ID>

nomad alloc logs <Allocations ID>

#Access webUI at http://127.0.0.1:4646