Consul and Nomad Integration

Consul Connect can be used with Nomad to provide secure service-to-service communication between Nomad jobs and task groups. Nomad is a simple, flexible scheduler and workload orchestrator. The ability to use the dynamic port feature of Nomad makes Connect reduces operational complexity.

For more information about using Consul Connect with Nomad, select one of the following resources.

For a step-by-step guide on using Consul Connect with Nomad:

• Nomad Consul Connect Guide

For reference information about configuring Nomad jobs to use Consul Connect:

• Nomad Job Specification - connect
• Nomad Job Specification - sidecar_service
• Nomad Job Specification - sidecar_task
• Nomad Job Specification - proxy
• Nomad Job Specification - upstreams