diff --git a/website/source/docs/cluster/requirements.html.md b/website/source/docs/cluster/requirements.html.md index bb8943ab9..7c48089a4 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/cluster/requirements.html.md +++ b/website/source/docs/cluster/requirements.html.md @@ -54,3 +54,18 @@ are not participating in Raft. Thus clients can have 100+ millisecond latency to their servers. This allows having a set of Nomad servers that service clients that can be spread geographically over a continent or even the world in the case of having a single "global" region and many datacenter. + +## Ports Used + +Nomad requires up to 3 different ports to work properly, some on +TCP, UDP, or both protocols. Below we document the requirements for each +port. + +* HTTP API (Default 4646). This is used by clients to talk to the HTTP + API. TCP only. + +* Server RPC (Default 4647). This is used by servers to handle incoming + requests from other agents. TCP only. + +* Serf WAN (Default 4648). This is used by servers to gossip over the + WAN to other servers. TCP and UDP.