community.general.nomad_job – Launch a Nomad Job

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.nomad_job.

New in version 1.3.0: of community.general

Synopsis

  • Launch a Nomad job.
  • Stop a Nomad job.
  • Force start a Nomad job

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • python-nomad

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
client_cert
path
Path of certificate for TLS/SSL.
client_key
path
Path of certificate's private key for TLS/SSL.
content
string
Content of Nomad job.
Either this or name must be specified.
content_format
string
    Choices:
  • hcl ←
  • json
Type of content of Nomad job.
force_start
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Force job to started.
host
string / required
FQDN of Nomad server.
name
string
Name of job for delete, stop and start job without source.
Name of job for delete, stop and start job without source.
Either this or content must be specified.
namespace
string
Namespace for Nomad.
state
string / required
    Choices:
  • present
  • absent
Deploy or remove job.
timeout
integer
Default:
5
Timeout (in seconds) for the request to Nomad.
token
string
ACL token for authentification.
use_ssl
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Use TLS/SSL connection.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Enable TLS/SSL certificate validation.

Notes

Note

  • check_mode is supported.

See Also

See also

Nomad jobs documentation

Complete documentation for Nomad API jobs.

Examples

- name: Create job
  community.general.nomad_job:
    host: localhost
    state: present
    content: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.file', 'job.hcl') }}"
    timeout: 120

- name: Stop job
  community.general.nomad_job:
    host: localhost
    state: absent
    name: api

- name: Force job to start
  community.general.nomad_job:
    host: localhost
    state: present
    name: api
    timeout: 120
    force_start: true

Authors

  • FERREIRA Christophe (@chris93111)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/nomad_job_module.html