Provision a Nomad cluster on AWS

Pre-requisites

To get started, create the following:

Set the AWS environment variables

$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=[AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID]
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=[AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY]

Build an AWS machine image with Packer

Packer is HashiCorp's open source tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. The Terraform templates included in this repo reference a publicly avaialble Amazon machine image (AMI) by default. The AMI can be customized through modifications to the build configuration script and packer.json.

Use the following command to build the AMI:

$ packer build packer.json

Provision a cluster with Terraform

cd to an environment subdirectory:

$ cd env/us-east

Update terraform.tfvars with your SSH key name and your AMI ID if you created a custom AMI:

region                  = "us-east-1"
ami                     = "ami-d42d74ae"
instance_type           = "t2.medium"
key_name                = "KEY_NAME"
server_count            = "3"
client_count            = "4"

You can also modify the region, instance_type, server_count, and client_count. At least one client and one server are required.

Provision the cluster:

$ terraform init
$ terraform get
$ terraform plan
$ terraform apply

Access the cluster

SSH to one of the servers using its public IP:

$ ssh -i /path/to/private/key ubuntu@PUBLIC_IP

The infrastructure that is provisioned for this test environment is configured to allow all traffic over port 22. This is obviously not recommended for production deployments.

Next Steps

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