Consul and Nomad Integration

Consul service mesh 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 with Consul service mesh reduces operational complexity.

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

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

• Nomad with Consul service mesh Guide

For reference information about configuring Nomad jobs to use Consul service mesh:

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