Nomad is a highly available, distributed, and scalable workload orchestrator that can deploy and manage containerized and non-containerized applications. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Nomad on Linux Mint Latest.
Before we begin, you need to have the following prerequisites:
Nomad is developed by HashiCorp. Thus, we need to install the HashiCorp GPG key, which will verify the integrity and authenticity of Nomad during installation.
To install the HashiCorp GPG key, open a terminal and run the following command:
$ curl -fsSL https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
After adding the GPG key, we need to add the HashiCorp repository to our sources list.
To add the HashiCorp repository, run the following command in the terminal:
$ echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hashicorp.list
Next, we need to update the package list to include the HashiCorp repository.
To update the package list, run the following command:
$ sudo apt-get update
Now it's time to install Nomad. To do that, run the following command:
$ sudo apt-get install nomad
After the installation is complete, you can verify it by running the following command:
$ nomad version
This command will print the version of Nomad installed on your system.
Nomad comes with a default configuration file located at /etc/nomad.d/nomad.hcl. You can modify this file to customize Nomad settings.
To open the configuration file, run the following command:
$ sudo nano /etc/nomad.d/nomad.hcl
After making the necessary changes, save the file and exit.
To verify Nomad is running properly, run the following command:
$ nomad agent -dev
If everything is ok, it will start the Nomad agent in dev mode, which means it will run a single-node Nomad cluster. You can now access the Nomad UI by pointing your web browser to http://localhost:4646.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Nomad on Linux Mint Latest. You can now deploy and manage your containerized and non-containerized applications using Nomad.
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