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introduce a new API /v1/jobs/statuses, primarily for use in the UI,
which collates info about jobs, their allocations, and latest deployment.
currently the UI gets *all* of /v1/jobs and sorts and paginates them client-side
in the browser, and its "summary" column is based on historical summary data
(which can be visually misleading, and sometimes scary when a job has failed
at some point in the not-yet-garbage-collected past).
this does pagination and filtering and such, and returns jobs sorted by ModifyIndex,
so latest-changed jobs still come first. it pulls allocs and latest deployment
straight out of current state for more a more robust, holistic view of the job status.
it is less efficient per-job, due to the extra state lookups, but should be more efficient
per-page (excepting perhaps for job(s) with very-many allocs).
if a POST body is sent like `{"jobs": [{"namespace": "cool-ns", "id": "cool-job"}]}`,
then the response will be limited to that subset of jobs. the main goal here is to
prevent "jostling" the user in the UI when jobs come into and out of existence.
and if a blocking query is started with `?index=N`, then the query should only
unblock if jobs "on page" change, rather than any change to any of the state
tables being queried ("jobs", "allocs", and "deployment"), to save unnecessary
HTTP round trips.
Nomad
Nomad is a simple and flexible workload orchestrator to deploy and manage containers (docker, podman), non-containerized applications (executable, Java), and virtual machines (qemu) across on-prem and clouds at scale.
Nomad is supported on Linux, Windows, and macOS. A commercial version of Nomad, Nomad Enterprise, is also available.
- Website: https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad
- Tutorials: HashiCorp Developer
- Forum: Discuss
Nomad provides several key features:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Federation for Multi-Region, Multi-Cloud: Nomad was designed to support infrastructure at a global scale. Nomad supports federation out-of-the-box and can deploy applications across multiple regions and clouds.
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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.
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HashiCorp Ecosystem: Nomad integrates seamlessly with Terraform, Consul, Vault for provisioning, service discovery, and secrets management.
Quick Start
Testing
See Developer: Getting Started for instructions on setting up a local Nomad cluster for non-production use.
Optionally, find Terraform manifests for bringing up a development Nomad cluster on a public cloud in the terraform directory.
Production
See Developer: Nomad Reference Architecture for recommended practices and a reference architecture for production deployments.
Documentation
Full, comprehensive documentation is available on the Nomad website: https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/docs
Guides are available on HashiCorp Developer.
Roadmap
A timeline of major features expected for the next release or two can be found in the Public Roadmap.
This roadmap is a best guess at any given point, and both release dates and projects in each release are subject to change. Do not take any of these items as commitments, especially ones later than one major release away.
Contributing
See the contributing directory for more developer documentation.