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How we use HashiCorp Nomad

What's this blog post about?

This blog post discusses how HashiCorp Nomad was deployed to improve the availability of services in data centers worldwide. The author explains the reliability model of customer-facing and management services running in each data center, highlighting the challenges faced with existing models. They then describe their pick for a dynamic task scheduling system, HashiCorp Nomad, and its deployment architecture. The post also covers job files, service discovery, observability, and challenges encountered during the process. Finally, it mentions the management services currently running on Nomad and future plans to onboard more services.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
June 5, 2020

Author(s)
Thomas Lefebvre

Word count
1972

Language
English

Hacker News points
150


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