How To Install HashiCorp Nomad

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In today’s blog post, we will discuss how to install HashiCorp Nomad. Nomad is a flexible workload orchestrator that enables an organization to easily deploy and manage any containerized or legacy application using a single, unified workflow. Nomad can run a diverse workload of Docker, non-containerized, microservice, and batch applications. Nomad enables developers to use declarative infrastructure-as-code for deploying applications. Nomad uses bin packing to efficiently schedule jobs and optimize for resource utilization. Nomad is supported on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Key Features Of HashiCorp Nomad:

Deploy Containers and Legacy Applications: Nomad’s flexibility as an orchestrator enables an organization to run containers, legacy, and batch applications together on the same infrastructure. Nomad brings core orchestration benefits to legacy applications without needing to containerize via pluggable task drivers.
Simple & Reliable: Nomad runs as a single binary and is entirely self-contained – combining resource management and scheduling into a single system. Nomad does not require any external services for storage or coordination. Nomad automatically handles application, node, and driver failures. Nomad is distributed and resilient, using leader election and state replication to provide high availability in the event of failures.
Device Plugins & GPU Support: Nomad offers built-in support for GPU workloads such as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). Nomad uses device plugins to automatically detect and utilize resources from hardware devices such as GPU, FPGAs, and TPUs.
Federation for Multi-Region: Nomad has native support for multi-region federation. This built-in capability allows multiple clusters to be linked together, which in turn enables developers to deploy jobs to any cluster in any region. Federation also enables automatic replication of ACL policies, namespaces, resource quotas and Sentinel policies across all clusters.
Proven Scalability: Nomad is optimistically concurrent, which increases throughput and reduces latency for workloads. Nomad has been proven to scale to clusters of 10K+ nodes in real-world production environments.
HashiCorp Ecosystem: Nomad integrates seamlessly with Terraform, Consul, Vault for provisioning, service discovery, and secrets management.

How To Install HashiCorp Nomad In AWS EC2 Instance With Amazon Linux OS

Image Source: https://www.hashicorp.com/img/products/nomad/principles/easy-to-use.png

How To Install HashiCorp Nomad:

How To Install HashiCorp Nomad In Windows OS:

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## Windows OS
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## Check if Chocolety is already installed
choco --version #should return an output

## Install Chocolety if not already installed
## Open a command propmt as admin and execute below command
@"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"

## Install nomad using chocolety
choco install nomad

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## Windows OS

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## Check if Chocolety is already installed

choco --version #should return an output

## Install Chocolety if not already installed

## Open a command propmt as admin and execute below command

@"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"

## Install nomad using chocolety

choco install nomad

How To Install HashiCorp Nomad In MAC OS:

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## MAC OS
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## Check if Homebrew already installed
brew --version #should return an output

## Install Homebrew if not already installed 
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

## Install the HashiCorp tap (a repository of all our Homebrew packages)
brew tap hashicorp/tap

## Install nomad using brew
brew install hashicorp/tap/nomad

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## MAC OS

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## Check if Homebrew already installed

brew --version #should return an output

## Install Homebrew if not already installed

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

## Install the HashiCorp tap (a repository of all our Homebrew packages)

brew tap hashicorp/tap

## Install nomad using brew

brew install hashicorp/tap/nomad

How To Install HashiCorp Nomad In Ubuntu Or Debian OS:

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## Ubuntu | Debian OS
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## Add HashiCorp GPG key
curl -fsSL https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | sudo apt-key add -

## Add HashiCorp repository
sudo apt-add-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) main"

## Install HashiCorp nomad
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nomad

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## Ubuntu | Debian OS

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## Add HashiCorp GPG key

curl -fsSL https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | sudo apt-key add -

## Add HashiCorp repository

sudo apt-add-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) main"

## Install HashiCorp nomad

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nomad

How To Install HashiCorp Nomad In Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Or CentOS:

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## RHEL | CentOS OS
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## Install yum-config-manager
sudo yum install -y yum-utils

## Add HashiCorp repository
sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://rpm.releases.hashicorp.com/RHEL/hashicorp.repo

## Install HashiCorp nomad
sudo yum -y install nomad

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## RHEL | CentOS OS

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## Install yum-config-manager

sudo yum install -y yum-utils

## Add HashiCorp repository

sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://rpm.releases.hashicorp.com/RHEL/hashicorp.repo

## Install HashiCorp nomad

sudo yum -y install nomad

How To Install HashiCorp Nomad In Fedora OS:

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## Fedora OS
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## Install dnf-config-manager
sudo dnf install -y dnf-plugins-core

## Add HashiCorp repository
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://rpm.releases.hashicorp.com/fedora/hashicorp.repo

## Install HashiCorp nomad
sudo dnf -y install nomad

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## Fedora OS

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## Install dnf-config-manager

sudo dnf install -y dnf-plugins-core

## Add HashiCorp repository

sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://rpm.releases.hashicorp.com/fedora/hashicorp.repo

## Install HashiCorp nomad

sudo dnf -y install nomad

How To Install HashiCorp Nomad In AWS EC2 Instance With Amazon Linux OS:

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## Amazon Linux OS
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## Install yum-config-manager
sudo yum install -y yum-utils

## Add HashiCorp repository
sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://rpm.releases.hashicorp.com/AmazonLinux/hashicorp.repo

## Install HashiCorp nomad
sudo yum -y install nomad

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## Amazon Linux OS

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## Install yum-config-manager

sudo yum install -y yum-utils

## Add HashiCorp repository

sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://rpm.releases.hashicorp.com/AmazonLinux/hashicorp.repo

## Install HashiCorp nomad

sudo yum -y install nomad

Validate HashiCorp Nomad Installation:

## Validate Installation
nomad #should return an output

1 2	## Validate Installation nomad #should return an output

Hope you have enjoyed this article, to get more details on HashiCorp Nomad, please refer below official documentation.

https://www.nomadproject.io/docs