»Installing Nomad

Nomad is available as a pre-compiled binary or as a package for several operating systems. You can also build Nomad from source.

If you are interested in trialing Nomad without installing it locally, see the Quickstart for options to get started with Nomad.

You can download a precompiled binary and run it on your machine locally. You can also verify the binary using the available SHA-256 sums. After downloading Nomad, unzip the package. Make sure that the nomad binary is available on your PATH before continuing with the other guides.

You can check the locations available on your path by running this command.

$ echo $PATH

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

The output is a list of locations separated by colons. You can make Nomad available by moving the binary to one of the listed locations, or by adding Nomad's location to your PATH.

Tip (Linux-based or Mac): Permanently add a new location to your path by editing your shell's settings file (usually called something like ~/.bashrc, where the part of the file name after the . and before rc is the name of your shell). In that file you will see a line that starts with export PATH=, followed by a colon-separated list of locations. Add the location of the Consul binary to that list and save the file. Then reload your shell's configuration with the command source ~/.bashrc, replacing bash with the name of your shell.

Tip (Windows): Add a location to your path via the GUI by navigating to Environment Variables in your system settings, and looking for the variable called PATH. You will see a semicolon-separated list of locations. Add the Nomad binary's location to that list and then launch a new console window.

»Verify the Installation

To verify Nomad was installed correctly, try the nomad command.

$ nomad

You should see help output, similar to the following.

Usage: nomad [-version] [-help] [-autocomplete-(un)install] <command> [args]

Common commands:
    run         Run a new job or update an existing job
    stop        Stop a running job
    status      Display the status output for a resource
    alloc       Interact with allocations
    job         Interact with jobs
    node        Interact with nodes
    agent       Runs a Nomad agent

Other commands:
    acl             Interact with ACL policies and tokens
    agent-info      Display status information about the local agent
    deployment      Interact with deployments
    eval            Interact with evaluations
    exec            Execute commands in task
    monitor         Stream logs from a Nomad agent
    namespace       Interact with namespaces
    operator        Provides cluster-level tools for Nomad operators
    quota           Interact with quotas
    sentinel        Interact with Sentinel policies
    server          Interact with servers
    system          Interact with the system API
    ui              Open the Nomad Web UI
    version         Prints the Nomad version

»Compiling from Source

To compile from source, you will need Go installed and configured properly (including a GOPATH environment variable set), as well as a copy of git in your PATH.

Clone the Nomad repository from GitHub into your GOPATH:

$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/hashicorp && cd $_
$ git clone https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad.git
$ cd nomad

Bootstrap the project. This will download and compile libraries and tools needed to compile Nomad:
```
$ make bootstrap
```
Build Nomad for your current system and put the binary in ./bin/ (relative to the git checkout). The make dev target is just a shortcut that builds nomad for only your local build environment (no cross-compiled targets).
```
$ make dev
```