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# Provision a Nomad cluster in the cloud
Use this repo to easily provision a Nomad sandbox environment on AWS, Azure, or GCP with
[Packer](https://packer.io) and [Terraform](https://terraform.io).
[Consul](https://www.consul.io/intro/index.html) and
[Vault](https://www.vaultproject.io/intro/index.html) are also installed
(colocated for convenience). The intention is to allow easy exploration of
Nomad and its integrations with the HashiCorp stack. This is *not* meant to be
a production ready environment.
## Setup
Clone the repo and optionally use [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/intro)
to bootstrap a local staging environment:
```bash
$ git clone git@github.com:hashicorp/nomad.git
$ cd nomad/terraform
$ vagrant up && vagrant ssh
```
The Vagrant staging environment pre-installs Packer, Terraform, Docker and the
Azure CLI.
## Provision a cluster
- Follow the steps [here](aws/README.md) to provision a cluster on AWS.
- Follow the steps [here](azure/README.md) to provision a cluster on Azure.
- Follow the steps [here](gcp/README.md) to provision a cluster on GCP.
Continue with the steps below after a cluster has been provisioned.
## Test
Run a few basic status commands to verify that Consul and Nomad are up and running
properly:
```bash
$ consul members
$ nomad server members
$ nomad node status
```
## Unseal the Vault cluster (optional)
To initialize and unseal Vault, run:
```bash
$ vault operator init -key-shares=1 -key-threshold=1
$ vault operator unseal
$ export VAULT_TOKEN=[INITIAL_ROOT_TOKEN]
```
The `vault init` command above creates a single
[Vault unseal key](https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/concepts/seal.html) for
convenience. For a production environment, it is recommended that you create at
least five unseal key shares and securely distribute them to independent
operators. The `vault init` command defaults to five key shares and a key
threshold of three. If you provisioned more than one server, the others will
become standby nodes but should still be unsealed. You can query the active
and standby nodes independently:
```bash
$ dig active.vault.service.consul
$ dig active.vault.service.consul SRV
$ dig standby.vault.service.consul
```
See the [Getting Started guide](https://www.vaultproject.io/intro/getting-started/first-secret.html)
for an introduction to Vault.
## Getting started with Nomad & the HashiCorp stack
Use the following links to get started with Nomad and its HashiCorp integrations:
* [Getting Started with Nomad](https://www.nomadproject.io/intro/getting-started/jobs.html)
* [Consul integration](https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/service-discovery/index.html)
* [Vault integration](https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/vault-integration/index.html)
* [consul-template integration](https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/job-specification/template.html)