Jet.com - Nomad Auto-Proxy with Consul-Template and NGINX

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