Nomad is a popular and powerful cluster orchestrator for managing containers across a distributed environment. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps of how to install Nomad on MXLinux Latest.
Before proceeding, make sure that you have the following:
Before installing Nomad, you need to make sure that your system has all the dependencies required.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install curl unzip
Once the dependencies are installed, you can proceed with downloading Nomad:
Go to the Nomad website: https://www.nomadproject.io/downloads
Copy the link for the latest version of Nomad for Linux, for example: https://releases.hashicorp.com/nomad/1.1.6/nomad_1.1.6_linux_amd64.zip
Navigate to the directory where you want to download the file, for example: /tmp
Download the file using curl:
cd /tmp
curl -O https://releases.hashicorp.com/nomad/1.1.6/nomad_1.1.6_linux_amd64.zip
Extract the downloaded file using unzip:
unzip nomad_*_linux_amd64.zip
Move the extracted binary file to /usr/local/bin:
sudo mv nomad /usr/local/bin/
To verify that Nomad is installed correctly, run the following command:
nomad version
This should return the installed version of Nomad.
In this tutorial, we have gone through the steps of how to install Nomad on MXLinux Latest. Make sure to explore Nomad's documentation to learn how to use its powerful features.
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