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  1. Developer
  2. Nomad

Orchestrate, deploy, and manage containers, binaries, and batch jobs in the cloud or on-prem

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What is Nomad?

A simple and flexible scheduler and orchestrator to deploy and manage containers and non-containerized applications across on-prem and clouds at scale

Learn more about Nomad features

Getting Started

Learn how to use Nomad to schedule and orchestrate workloads.

CLI Quick Start

Featured Tutorials

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    8min
    Multi-Region Deployments
    Deploy applications to multiple federated Nomad clusters with configurable rollout and rollback strategies.
    • Nomad
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    25min
    Schedule Edge Services with Native Service Discovery
    Use Nomad to orchestrate edge workloads. Schedule a demo application on the edge, using Nomad's native service discovery to connect edge services. Simulate unstable edge connections to learn how Nomad gracefully handles disconnected clients.
    • Nomad
    • Terraform
    • Packer
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    23min
    Managing External Traffic with Application Load Balancing
    Deploy an Application Load Balancer on AWS to allow external Internet traffic to your internally load balanced applications running in Nomad.
    • Nomad
    • Terraform
    • Packer

Nomad Jobs

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    Deploy and Manage Jobs
    Learn the fundamentals of expressing your workload as Nomad jobs.
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    Parameterized Jobs
    Nomad parameterized jobs enable dynamic runtime behaviors from a single job specification.
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    Nomad Pack
    Create and re-use existing job templates with Nomad Pack.

HashiCorp Tools Integrations

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    Integrate Consul
    Learn to secure jobs and add Consul health checking, service discovery, and service mesh capabilities.
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    Integrate Vault
    Configure the Nomad secrets engine in Vault and use Vault to obtain secrets for workloads.
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    Integrate Waypoint
    Use Waypoint to build, deploy, and release your applications to Nomad.

Nomad in Production

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    Nomad Enterprise
    Learn about Nomad Enterprise features and how to use them at scale.
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    Secure Nomad with Access Control
    Learn to configure a Nomad cluster for ACLs, author your first policy, and grant a token based on it.
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    Enable Transport Encryption for Nomad
    Encrypt Nomad's intercluster traffic—UDP gossip and TCP API/RPC traffic.
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    Job Resiliency
    Learn to keep jobs running in the event of the unexpected with local retries and node rescheduling.
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    Governance and Policy
    Operate Nomad securely in a multi-team environment with resource quotas and Sentinel integration.
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    Advanced Application Scheduling
    Learn to express placement preferences for job allocations using affinities and preemption.

Cluster Management

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    Operating Nomad Clusters
    Learn the features operators will need to build and maintain Nomad clusters.
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    Upgrade a Cluster
    Nomad is designed to be flexible and resilient when upgrading from one Nomad version to the next.

Plugins and Tools

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    Task Drivers
    Task drivers are used by Nomad clients to execute a task and provide resource isolation. Extending task drivers allows Nomad the flexibility to support a broad set of workloads.
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    External Tools
    External tools provide additional capabilities and use cases to Nomad and can sometimes be deployed as a Nomad job in your cluster.

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  1. What is Nomad?
  2. Getting Started
  3. Featured Tutorials
  4. Nomad Jobs
  5. HashiCorp Tools Integrations
  6. Nomad in Production
  7. Cluster Management
  8. Plugins and Tools
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