Deploying Nomad on Google Cloud - Compute Infrastructure Setup

Overview

Learn how to set up a Nomad cluster on Google Cloud in this comprehensive video tutorial. Explore networking prerequisites, create managed instance groups and templates, set up autoscalers, and configure a cloud init template for a highly available Nomad deployment. Follow along as experts guide you through each step, from creating compute instance templates to implementing health checks and configuring IAM permissions for Nomad Cloud Auto-join. Gain insights into Nomad Autopilot and prepare for future topics such as ingress, workload autoscaling, self-healing, and observability in this hands-on introduction to deploying Nomad on Google Cloud's compute infrastructure.

Syllabus

- Introduction
- Networking prerequisites
- What is HashiCorp Nomad?
- What are we deploying in this episode?
- Creating a Compute Instance Template
- Using Cloud Init to bootstrap our instances
- Creating a Regional Managed Instance Group
- Creating Health Checks
- Creating a Regional Autoscaler
- Creating a Service Account
- IAM permissions for Nomad Cloud Auto-join
- Nomad Autopilot
- Deploying
- Next steps