Nomad Terraform Provider

• Website: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/nomad

Maintainers

This provider plugin is maintained by the Nomad team at HashiCorp.

Requirements

• Terraform 1.0.x
• Go 1.24 (to build the provider plugin)

Building The Provider

Clone repository to: $GOPATH/src/github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-nomad

$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/hashicorp; cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/hashicorp
$ git clone git@github.com:hashicorp/terraform-provider-nomad

Enter the provider directory and build the provider

$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-nomad
$ make build

Using the provider

To use a released provider in your Terraform environment, run terraform init and Terraform will automatically install the provider. To specify a particular provider version when installing released providers, see the Terraform documentation on provider versioning.

Refer to the section below for instructions on how to to use a custom-built version of the provider.

For either installation method, documentation about the provider specific configuration options can be found on the provider's website.

Developing the Provider

If you wish to work on the provider, you'll first need Go installed on your machine (version 1.20+ is required). You'll also need to correctly setup a GOPATH, as well as adding $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH.

To compile the provider, run make build. This will build the provider and put the provider binary in the $GOPATH/bin directory.

$ make build
...
$ $GOPATH/bin/terraform-provider-nomad
...

To use the provider binary in a local configuration, create a file called .terraformrc in your home directory and specify a development override for the nomad provider.

provider_installation {
  dev_overrides {
    "hashicorp/nomad" = "<ABSOLUTE PATH TO YOUR GOPATH>/bin/"
  }
}

In order to test the provider, you can simply run make test.

$ make test

In order to run the full suite of Acceptance tests:

1. setup test environment

nomad agent -dev -acl-enabled

2. obtain a management token

nomad acl bootstrap

4. set nomad agent address (if differs from http://localhost:4646) and token secret ID and run tests

NOMAD_TOKEN=<output of nomad acl bootstrap's Secret ID> NOMAD_ADDR=http://<host>:<port> make testacc

Acceptance tests expect fresh instance of nomad agent, so all steps must be performed every time tests are executed.

Note: Acceptance tests create real resources, and may cost money to run.