A Nomad Primer
Over the past few months, I’ve had the opportunity to create a Nomad cluster and develop tooling around it.1 What follows is a short list of some Nomad CLI commands I’ve found useful in administrating a cluster. (The job name “nginx” is used as an example.)
nomad status nginx
Display basic information about a job. Helpfully displays allocation IDs and deployment status. When in doubt, run this command.