Deploying Nomad on Google Cloud: Scaling with Nomad Metrics

In the fifth episode of "Deploying Nomad on Google Cloud" HashiCorp Developer Advocate Bruno Schaatsbergen and Google Cloud Principal Consultant Chris ter Beke explore how to expose Nomad metrics to Google Cloud Monitoring to automatically scale their Nomad cluster. Repo → github.com/ChrisTerBeke/nomad-on-gcp

Nomad is a simple and flexible scheduler and orchestrator for managing containers and non-containerized applications across on-prem and clouds at scale.

0:00 - Introduction
0:20 - What are we doing in this episode?
2:55 - Telemetry in Nomad
5:15 - Deploy the OpenTelemetry Collector
21:10 - Fixing an IAM metric permission issue
27:39 - Viewing metrics in Google Cloud Metrics Explorer
28:33 - Talking about autoscaling metrics
32:33 - Adding allocation metrics to autoscalers
40:10 - Testing the autoscaler
48:35 - Recap
50:20 - Next steps

#Nomad #GoogleCloud #Terraform

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