Jet.com - Nomad Auto-Proxy with Consul-Template and NGINX
Justen Walker explains how Jet.com uses HashiCorp Consul and Nomad to allow hundreds of developers to have self-service access, despite relying on NGINX static configs—and with a remarkably small DevOps team.
In production, Jet.com has 40+ Nomad agents, controlling 300+ jobs, composed of hundreds of microservices.
Justen's DevOps team also uses the NGINX load-balancer to route all its HTTP traffic. But the team is small—fewer than 20 people to service hundreds of developers—so to prevent becoming a bottleneck, they needed a way for developers to self-service. And that's a problem, because NGINX requires static configs.
In this talk from HashiDays NYC 2017, Justen covers: * how they set up Nomad and Consul to achieve this * how they prevent "brittle" NGINX configs from becoming a problem * how they implement multi-region support * gotchas, tips and tricks
Speaker
Justen WalkerSenior software engineer, DevOps, Jet.com
