larrymyers / nomad-hello-world

The companion sample project for using Nomad and Traefik for deployment infrastructure.

Nomad "Hello World!"

This is the companion sample project for running your own deployment infrastructure with Traefik and Nomad.

Blog Post: https://www.larrymyers.com/posts/nomad-and-traefik/

You can see it running at: https://hello.larrymyers.com/

This project demonstrates the following:

• Using the git commit short hash as a version.
• Using docker multi-stage builds to create slim images.
• Using Nomad environment variables at runtime to bind the server to the correct hostname.
• Using Nomad secure variables to provide secrets via environment variable.
• Using tags to auto-configure routing with Traefik.

Setup

• Go 1.16+
• Nomad 1.4+

Replace any instances of "your-domain.tld" with the actual domain you want to use with your hosting setup.

Development

MESSAGE=<your message here> go run main.go
http://localhost:8000

Build and Deploy

NOMAD_ADDR=http://nomad.your-domain.tld NOMAD_TOKEN=<your Nomad ACL token> ./deploy.sh