Previously, Nomad was using a hand-made lookup table for looking
up EC2 CPU performance characteristics (core count + speed = ticks).
This data was incomplete and incorrect depending on region. The AWS
API has the correct data but requires API keys to use (i.e. should not
be queried directly from Nomad).
This change introduces a lookup table generated by a small command line
tool in Nomad's tools module which uses the Amazon AWS API.
Running the tool requires AWS_* environment variables set.
$ # in nomad/tools/cpuinfo
$ go run .
Going forward, Nomad can incorporate regeneration of the lookup table
somewhere in the CI pipeline so that we remain up-to-date on the latest
offerings from EC2.
Fixes#7830
This PR switches the Nomad repository from using govendor to Go modules
for managing dependencies. Aspects of the Nomad workflow remain pretty
much the same. The usual Makefile targets should continue to work as
they always did. The API submodule simply defers to the parent Nomad
version on the repository, keeping the semantics of API versioning that
currently exists.
Tim Gross