Awesome Nomad

A curated list of amazingly awesome Nomad tools and shiny things.

Pull requests with additional tools and projects are more than welcome!

User interfaces

• jippi/hashi-ui - Interface for Consul & Nomad by HashiCorp, live stream of data, fast search and resource visualization per cluster or client.

Auto Scalers

• jrasell/chemtrail - Chemtrail is a client scaler for HashiCorp Nomad allowing for dynamic and safe scaling of the client workerpool based on demand.
• jrasell/sherpa - Sherpa is a job scaler for HashiCorp Nomad and aims to be highly flexible so it can support a wide range of architectures and budgets.
• underarmour/libra - Scale Nomad task group counts based on external metrics Graphite or AWS CloudWatch.
• Spotinst - SaaS Nomad Cluster autoscaler with option to run the clients on Spot Instances (AWS Only)
• trivago/scalad - Scalad is a nomad horizontal scaler that can be setup from each job Taskgroup meta stanza based on external metrics.

CI / CD

• getnelson/nelson - Lights-out deployment and lifecycle manager for Nomad (and other pluggable schedulers). Fully integrated with Vault and Consul. Optionally can act as a control plane for your traffic routing teir.
• jenkinsci/nomad-plugin - Jenkins plugin to allow using Nomad Jobs to scale out Jenkins build slaves.
• jrasell/levant - A templating and deployment tool for HashiCorp Nomad jobs that provides realtime feedback and detailed failure messages upon deployment issues.
• ValFadeev/rundeck-nomad-plugin - A Rundeck plugin for authoring and running Nomad jobs by operators or in automated deployment pipelines.
• screwdrivercd/nomad - Use nomad to schedule and execute workflows triggered by an scm (github/bitbucket).
• fortress-shell - Self-written CI/CD SaaS based on Hashicorp Nomad

Plugins

• trivago/nomad-pot-driver - Plugin for managing FreeBSD Jails with Hashicorp's Nomad
• cneira/jail-task-driver - Task driver that uses FreeBSD jails
• pascomnet/nomad-driver-podman - A nomad task driver for podman containers
• Roblox/nomad-driver-containerd - A nomad task driver for containerd. Documentation on nomadproject.io.

Self Service

• data-science-platform/cluster-broccoli - Cluster Broccoli is a RESTful web service + UI to manage Nomad jobs through a self service application. Jobs are defined based on templates, allowing for a selectable amount of customization.

Job files

• jrasell/nomadfiles A collection of Nomad job files for deploying applications to a cluster.
• perrymanuk/hashi-homelab Job files for a small lightweight homelab based on nomad and consul from hashicorp.

Utilities

• seatgeek/nomad-helper - Simple helper binary to allow you to reevaluate all jobs, drain an node (and wait for all allocations to stop), force a garbage collection, export / import job task group counts in YAML format.
• seatgeek/nomad-firehose - Go binary that "tails" API endpoints and emit messages for each changed resource to RabbitMQ, AWS kinesis or stdout.
• seatgeek/nomad-crashloop-detector - Consuming the RabbitMQ output from seatgeek/nomad-firehose, will detect when allocations restart too fast or too often, outputing the offending allocation to RabbitMQ, AWS Kinesis or stdout.
• jrasell/nomad-toast - A tool for receiving notifications based on HashiCorp Nomad events.
• sepulworld/deadman-check - A monitoring companion for Nomad periodic jobs that alerts if periodic isn't running at the expected interval.
• blalor/nomad-watcher - A simple service that watches Nomad's nodes, jobs, allocations, deployments, and evaluations, and writes the events to a file. Also includes a utility for tailing events to a console window.
• smintz/nomadgen - Define your Nomad jobspecs using Python.
• jet/nomad-service-alerter - A tool which provides opt-in alerting for the jobs running on Nomad. It mainly covers Consul Health-check alerts and Restart-Loop (when allocations switch between "pending" and "running" state often due to internal errors) alerts providing integration with PagerDuty.
• 42wim/nomadctld - Ssh server with ability to exec/attach/logs/tail/stop hashicorp nomad containers.
• ataccama/nomad-deploy - Python3 script that renders a Jinja2 template, plans and registers job. Installable as an executable from pypi.org.

Tutorials

• anubhavmishra/envoy-consul-sds - A tutorial on how to get Envoy running on Nomad and using Envoy's SDS(Service Discovery Service) to access Consul API.
• kelseyhightower/hashiconf-eu-2016 - Repo from a talk on building out a deployment with GCE/Consul/Nomad/Fabio loadbalancer. Check out the talk on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nosa5-xcATw

Examples / Demos

• pete0emerson/hashipoc - A Vagrant driven example of getting Consul / Vault / Nomad up and running with a sample app deployed

Other

• numkem/nomad-spk - spk (Synology package) to install Hashicorp's nomad scheduler into Synology NAS