policy Block

Placement	`policy`

The policy block configures the Nomad Autoscaler's policy handling.

policy {
  dir              = "/opt/nomad-autoscaler/policies"
  default_cooldown = "2m"

  source "nomad" {
    enabled = false
  }
}

`policy` Parameters

default_cooldown (string: "5m") - The default cooldown that will be applied to all scaling policies which do not specify a cooldown period.
default_evaluation_interval (string: "10s") - The default evaluation interval that will be applied to all scaling policies which do not specify an evaluation interval.
dir (string: "") - The path to a directory used to load scaling policies.
source (Source) - Configures policy sources. The nomad source is enabled by default and the file source is automatically enabled if dir is set.

The source block is used to configure scaling policies sources. Supported sources are file and nomad.

policy {
  source "nomad" {
    enabled = false
  }
}

enabled (bool: true) - Defines if the scaling policy source should be enabled or disabled.