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Install Nomad
Nomad must first be installed on your machine. Nomad is distributed as a binary package for all supported platforms and architectures. This page will not cover how to compile Nomad from source, but compiling from source is covered in the documentation for those who want to be sure they're compiling source they trust into the final binary.
Installing Nomad
To install Nomad, find the appropriate package for your system and download it. Nomad is packaged as a zip archive.
After downloading Nomad, unzip the package. Nomad runs as a single binary
named vault. Any other files in the package can be safely removed and
Nomad will still function.
The final step is to make sure that vault is available on the PATH.
See this page
for instructions on setting the PATH on Linux and Mac.
This page
contains instructions for setting the PATH on Windows.
Verifying the Installation
After installing Nomad, verify the installation worked by opening a new
terminal session and checking that vault is available. By executing
vault, you should see help output similar to the following:
$ vault
usage: vault [-version] [-help] <command> [args]
Common commands:
delete Delete operation on secrets in Nomad
path-help Look up the help for a path
read Read data or secrets from Nomad
renew Renew the lease of a secret
revoke Revoke a secret.
server Start a Nomad server
status Outputs status of whether Nomad is sealed and if HA mode is enabled
write Write secrets or configuration into Nomad
All other commands:
audit-disable Disable an audit backend
audit-enable Enable an audit backend
audit-list Lists enabled audit backends in Nomad
auth Prints information about how to authenticate with Nomad
auth-disable Disable an auth provider
auth-enable Enable a new auth provider
init Initialize a new Nomad server
key-status Provides information about the active encryption key
mount Mount a logical backend
mounts Lists mounted backends in Nomad
policies List the policies on the server
policy-delete Delete a policy from the server
policy-write Write a policy to the server
rekey Rekeys Nomad to generate new unseal keys
remount Remount a secret backend to a new path
rotate Rotates the backend encryption key used to persist data
seal Seals the vault server
token-create Create a new auth token
token-renew Renew an auth token
token-revoke Revoke one or more auth tokens
unmount Unmount a secret backend
unseal Unseals the vault server
version Prints the Nomad version
If you get an error that Nomad could not be found, then your PATH environment variable was not setup properly. Please go back and ensure that your PATH variable contains the directory where Nomad was installed.
Otherwise, Nomad is installed and ready to go!