Learning HashiCorp Nomad – Workload Orchestration & Cluster Management
 
Course Description
Learning HashiCorp Nomad is a hands-on, practical training program designed to teach DevOps engineers, platform operators, and infrastructure professionals how to deploy, manage, and orchestrate applications at scale using HashiCorp Nomad. This course provides a complete introduction to Nomad’s architecture, scheduling engine, cluster management capabilities, and integration with service discovery, secrets management, and modern cloud-native workflows.
 
You’ll learn how to deploy Nomad clusters, run workloads (containers, VMs, binaries, and batch jobs), manage resources, configure job specifications, and operate Nomad in both standalone and multi-region environments. The course also covers key operational skills including scaling, rolling upgrades, high availability, monitoring, and securing Nomad with Consul and Vault.
 
Through real-world labs and guided examples, this course equips you with the practical skills needed to run flexible, performant, and production-ready workload orchestration using Nomad.
 
What You’ll Learn
Nomad architecture, components, and communication flows
Installing and configuring Nomad servers and clients
Writing and deploying Nomad job specifications (containers, batch, service, system jobs)
Integrating Nomad with Consul for service discovery
Using Vault for secrets injection and workload security
Resource scheduling, constraints, affinities, task drivers, and workload placement
Running multi-node and multi-region Nomad clusters
Scaling applications, rolling updates, and canary deployments
Monitoring, logging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
Best practices for securing and operating Nomad in production environments
 
Who This Course Is For
DevOps and SRE engineers
Platform and infrastructure engineers
Cloud-native and container orchestration practitioners
Engineers evaluating Nomad as an alternative to Kubernetes
Anyone building automated, scalable workload orchestration platforms