Khan
An interactive CLI management tool for Hashicorp's Nomad
Why
Nomad has a great CLI tool with a lot of features, but copy/pasting IDs around and wanting to see steady updates among multiple objects can be tricky. There are also great web UIs for working with Nomad, but these have overhead in setup. There is room for a middle ground for quick debugging/troubleshooting on the command line, similar to a tool like k9s.
Enter Khan!
Configuration
Khan uses the default Nomad configuration variables.
Developer Requirements
The following are required as global installs for development:
- Python 3 (standard install for Linux/Mac should be fine)
- Go 1.17+ (goenv is recommended)
- Make (probably already installed)
Other tools will be handled automatically by the Makefile. These tools will be downloaded locally to the ./bin folder. For ease of use, you may want to use direnv with the supplied .envrc.example file to add this local path to your bin, so you can run these tools as if they were globally installed.
Running a Nomad test server
Any Nomad server can be used for testing, but for simplicity and self-contained development a quick development server can be brought up with make nomad-test-server in another terminal. This will start a Nomad agent in dev mode which brings up the server and a single client, itself.
More complicated setups will be added later via Vagrant, but this is enough for a starting point.
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