Interacting with Nomad using the CLI

Some common commands which are used to interact with the jobs/allocations.

Please refer to CLI Docs to see the common Environment Variables to use in case you’re accessing a production Nomad cluster.

• Create a deployment

nomad job run file.nomad

• Stop a job

nomad job stop -purge <job-name>

• View job status

nomad job status <job-name>

• View alloc status

nomad alloc status -stats <alloc-id>

• View logs

nomad alloc logs -f -stderr <alloc-id>

• Exec inside alloc

nomad alloc exec -i -t -task <task-name> <alloc-id> /bin/bash