# Nomad

**URL:** https://discuss.hashicorp.com/c/nomad/28.md

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## [Community Office Hours: Nomad](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/community-office-hours-nomad/16848)

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**Author:** [@katiereese317](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/katiereese317)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [August 27, 2025, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/community-office-hours-nomad/16848 "2025-08-27T09:35:18Z")

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Join us monthly on Wednesdays for Community Office Hours focused on Nomad. Please use this thread to ask technical questions to be answered during the 60-minute live office hours. During Community Office Hours, we will …

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## [About the Nomad category](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/about-the-nomad-category/1325)

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**Author:** [@melissa](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/melissa)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 30, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/about-the-nomad-category/1325 "2019-04-30T19:09:54Z")

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Nomad use cases, questions, and best practices discussions. For enterprise support requests, please open a ticket at https://support.hashicorp.com/hc/en-us.

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## [Anybody else annoyed by the failed to fetch jobs error box on the jobs page when there was no error?](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/anybody-else-annoyed-by-the-failed-to-fetch-jobs-error-box-on-the-jobs-page-when-there-was-no-error/77875)

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**Author:** [@afreidah](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/afreidah)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 20, 2026, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/anybody-else-annoyed-by-the-failed-to-fetch-jobs-error-box-on-the-jobs-page-when-there-was-no-error/77875 "2026-10-20T17:02:43Z")

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Has existed since like 1.9.x…noticed somebody filed a gh issue for it and I remembered I had started working on a fix for it a while ago and then forgot to finish it. Finally finished that in my fork and submitted my fi…

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## [Nomad template in file](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-template-in-file/77330)

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**Author:** [@hazard.2008](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/hazard.2008)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 17, 2026, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-template-in-file/77330 "2026-10-17T20:37:19Z")

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Hello, I have question about template in separate file. I have many jobs (150+) with this template: job "example-app" { datacenters = \["dc1"\] type = "service" group "web" { count = 1 task "server…

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## [Announcing urga: a terminal UI for Nomad](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/announcing-urga-a-terminal-ui-for-nomad/77794)

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**Author:** [@ingvarch](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/ingvarch)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [October 17, 2026, 8:16pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/announcing-urga-a-terminal-ui-for-nomad/77794 "2026-10-17T20:16:45Z")

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Hi all, I’ve released urga, an open source terminal UI for Nomad (Go, MIT): GitHub - ingvarch/urga: Terminal UI for HashiCorp Nomad. One binary, no config to write, no browser. · GitHub One binary, no config file. It r…

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## [Curious how others handle deployments](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/curious-how-others-handle-deployments/77843)

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**Author:** [@afreidah](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/afreidah)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 16, 2026, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/curious-how-others-handle-deployments/77843 "2026-10-16T11:15:19Z")

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I’ve been meaning to ask this..I don’t handle job deployments at work, my work is way lower level than that, but for my homelab nomad/consul/vault cluster I am managing all the jobs. How are professional teams deploying…

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## [Tool to do automated nomad/consul/vault cluster upgrades...somebody might find this useful perhaps](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/tool-to-do-automated-nomad-consul-vault-cluster-upgrades-somebody-might-find-this-useful-perhaps/77844)

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**Author:** [@afreidah](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/afreidah)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 14, 2026, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/tool-to-do-automated-nomad-consul-vault-cluster-upgrades-somebody-might-find-this-useful-perhaps/77844 "2026-10-14T10:58:39Z")

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While I know most people don’t share my love of chef/cinc over ansible/puppet/whatever so that part won’t be useful but it could easily be taken out and replaced by a different mechanism the cinc is used for there: actua…

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## [Nomad update groups separately within a job](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-update-groups-separately-within-a-job/48672)

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**Author:** [@Dgotlieb](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/Dgotlieb)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 14, 2026, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-update-groups-separately-within-a-job/48672 "2026-10-14T09:04:22Z")

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Hi, According to the update stanza, the parameter max\_parallel applies for tasks within a group. The doc also states that The task groups themselves are updated in parallel I was wondering if there is a way to update …

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## [How to start up the tasks of a nomad job in a specific order](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/how-to-start-up-the-tasks-of-a-nomad-job-in-a-specific-order/77798)

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**Author:** [@mihael](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/mihael)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 14, 2026, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/how-to-start-up-the-tasks-of-a-nomad-job-in-a-specific-order/77798 "2026-10-14T08:10:41Z")

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Hi, i am new to Nomad and have an application which consists of 3 middleware docker container and 3 docker containers which are my application. I need to have the middleware started before my application starts. I have …

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## [Nomad Driver Exec2 v0.2.0 Released](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-driver-exec2-v0-2-0-released/77791)

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**Author:** [@ritesh-harihar](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/ritesh-harihar)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 29, 2026, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-driver-exec2-v0-2-0-released/77791 "2026-09-29T13:48:29Z")

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Dear All, We are excited to announce the release of Nomad Driver Exec2 v0.2.0. This release includes the following changes. Features Linux ambient capabilities — A new allow\_caps plugin configuration option, togethe…

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## [Nomad Autoscaler 0.6.0 Released](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-autoscaler-0-6-0-released/77790)

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**Author:** [@vishnuedavarath](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/vishnuedavarath)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 29, 2026, 7:03am UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-autoscaler-0-6-0-released/77790 "2026-09-29T07:03:33Z")

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Dear All, We are excited to announce the release of Nomad Autoscaler 0.6.0. This release includes the following changes. Features: Instana APM plugin - A new APM plugin enables Nomad Autoscaler to use Instana infrast…

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## [RFC：what Nomad version do you recommend](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/rfc-what-nomad-version-do-you-recommend/77750)

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**Author:** [@AdaAibaby](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/AdaAibaby)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 15, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/rfc-what-nomad-version-do-you-recommend/77750 "2026-09-15T16:57:22Z")

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Hi team, after hitting the raw\_exec cgroup memory hard‑limit breaking change (#19588), could you please advise which Nomad release branch is currently recommended for workloads that heavily rely on raw\_exec Java processe…

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## [Using nomad, and sending logs with job / task labels into Loki and friends](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/using-nomad-and-sending-logs-with-job-task-labels-into-loki-and-friends/77033)

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**Author:** [@mrchrisadams](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/mrchrisadams)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 27, 2026, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/using-nomad-and-sending-logs-with-job-task-labels-into-loki-and-friends/77033 "2026-08-27T09:03:32Z")

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Hi folks, I’m coming back to doing some work with Nomad, for our setup that centralises logs by sending them to a central Loki server. We use promtail to send logs for non-Nomad, non-docker processes, and we use a syste…

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## [Understanding Nomad reserved disk](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/understanding-nomad-reserved-disk/77517)

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**Author:** [@iamoric](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/iamoric)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 27, 2026, 6:43am UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/understanding-nomad-reserved-disk/77517 "2026-08-27T06:43:40Z")

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Hello, I’m trying to confirm how the Nomad scheduler calculates disk resources. On a physical host with a 10GB total disk partition, 8GB is used by the OS and other sutff, leaving only 2GB of actual free space. Howeve…

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## [Problems running fabio](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/problems-running-fabio/77598)

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**Author:** [@aoviedosolis](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/aoviedosolis)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 27, 2026, 6:01am UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/problems-running-fabio/77598 "2026-08-27T06:01:07Z")

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Hello World, I have a cluster with nomad integrated with consul. I can enable workloads identify and api-gateway (both are working fine) and want to run fabio as load balancer for external connections using this tutorial…

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## [Nomad Autoscaler not refreshing Scaling Policy after nomad job run](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-autoscaler-not-refreshing-scaling-policy-after-nomad-job-run/77248)

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**Author:** [@leandro.m](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/leandro.m)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 24, 2026, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-autoscaler-not-refreshing-scaling-policy-after-nomad-job-run/77248 "2026-08-24T14:16:27Z")

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Hi everyone, I’m experiencing an issue where the Nomad Autoscaler (v0.4.9) does not seem to pick up changes made to a scaling policy when the job is updated via nomad job run. The Scenario: I have a job with an acti…

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## [Nomad 2.0.5, 1.11.9+ent, and v1.10.15+ent released!](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-2-0-5-1-11-9-ent-and-v1-10-15-ent-released/77646)

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**Author:** [@tgross](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/tgross)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 14, 2026, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-2-0-5-1-11-9-ent-and-v1-10-15-ent-released/77646 "2026-08-14T12:51:52Z")

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The Nomad team is happy to announce the release of Nomad 2.0.5. The release includes a number of bug fixes and enhancements, including: A \`plan\_apply\_pipeline\` configuration that allows the leader to have more outstan…

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## [GitOps Workflow with Nomad](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/gitops-workflow-with-nomad/31200)

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**Author:** [@pslobo](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/pslobo)\
**Replies:** 28\
**Last updated:** [July 17, 2026, 7:07pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/gitops-workflow-with-nomad/31200 "2026-07-17T19:07:33Z")

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Hi All, Disclaimer: I’m currently starting to evaluate Nomad so I still haven’t heavily researched this and there may be something I’m missing. If that’s the case, please do point me in the direction of said docs …

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## [Consul SI tokens not derived for allocations after Nomad restart (WI + JWT auth)](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/consul-si-tokens-not-derived-for-allocations-after-nomad-restart-wi-jwt-auth/77325)

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**Author:** [@Diogo-Almeida3](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/Diogo-Almeida3)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 13, 2026, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/consul-si-tokens-not-derived-for-allocations-after-nomad-restart-wi-jwt-auth/77325 "2026-07-13T17:23:22Z")

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I have Workload Identity configured with a JWT auth method (\`nomad-workloads\`) for Consul Connect. Everything works perfectly during normal operation - allocations get SI tokens, Envoy proxies authenticate fine. The pro…

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## [Nomad Driver Podman 0.6.5 Released](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-driver-podman-0-6-5-released/77567)

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**Author:** [@ritesh-harihar](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/ritesh-harihar)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 13, 2026, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-driver-podman-0-6-5-released/77567 "2026-07-13T12:49:32Z")

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Dear All, We are excited to announce the release of Nomad Driver Podman 0.6.5. This release includes the following changes. Improvements: Image platform overrides — New os, arch, and variant task config options let y…

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## [Problems with api-gateway in consul and nomad](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/problems-with-api-gateway-in-consul-and-nomad/77535)

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**Author:** [@aoviedosolis](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/aoviedosolis)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [July 8, 2026, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/problems-with-api-gateway-in-consul-and-nomad/77535 "2026-07-08T15:48:06Z")

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I’m trying to configure an API gateway on Consul and Nomad. I have both solutions integrated and Nomad Workloads enabled without any issues. I’ve also enabled grpc\_tls and HTTPS. I’m following the API gateway tutorial on…

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## [GitHub - brianmichel/nomad-compass: A simple job reconciler for Nomad](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/github-brianmichel-nomad-compass-a-simple-job-reconciler-for-nomad/76655)

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**Author:** [@brianmichel](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/brianmichel)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 22, 2026, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/github-brianmichel-nomad-compass-a-simple-job-reconciler-for-nomad/76655 "2026-06-22T15:27:51Z")

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Hey everyone, I wanted to share a little project I’ve been working on. As I’ve been getting deeper into Nomad the concept of “job reconciliation” has entered the working set of tools I’ve heard about. I saw the nomad-ops …

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## [CSI-Cinder - Volume Type choosable?](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/csi-cinder-volume-type-choosable/77491)

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**Author:** [@neuro](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/neuro)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 11, 2026, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/csi-cinder-volume-type-choosable/77491 "2026-06-11T13:39:26Z")

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Hi \*, is there somebody using Nomad on top of OpenStack and is using CSI-Cinder? I have no problem deploying the CSI-Cinder plugin and I can create a volume with “nomad volume create \<volspecfile.hcl\>”. But can I choo…

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## [Nomad 2.0.2 released](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-2-0-2-released/77446)

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**Author:** [@tgross](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/tgross)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 22, 2026, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-2-0-2-released/77446 "2026-05-22T18:10:17Z")

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The Nomad team has released Nomad 2.0.2! This is a patch release that fixes a critical regression that prevented clients from fetching work from the server introduced in 2.0.1, along with fixes for a few UI bugs. Pleas…

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## [Nomad Driver Virt 0.0.2-beta.1 Released](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-driver-virt-0-0-2-beta-1-released/77437)

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**Author:** [@chrisroberts](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/chrisroberts)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 19, 2026, 9:39pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-driver-virt-0-0-2-beta-1-released/77437 "2026-05-19T21:39:50Z")

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Nomad Driver Virt 0.0.2-beta.1 Released The Nomad team is pleased to announce the release of the Virt Task Driver for Nomad version 0.0.2-beta.1. This driver is currently in a tech preview. Updates in this release inclu…

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## [Nomad Autoscaler 0.5.0 Released](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-autoscaler-0-5-0-released/77436)

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**Author:** [@divyansh-singh](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/divyansh-singh)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 19, 2026, 11:54am UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-autoscaler-0-5-0-released/77436 "2026-05-19T11:54:24Z")

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Dear All, We are excited to announce the release of Nomad Autoscaler 0.5.0. This release includes the following changes. Features: InfluxDB APM plugin — A new plugin lets you use InfluxDB 1.x as a metrics source for …

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## [ Cannot install Nomad on Ubuntu 24.04 via apt](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/cannot-install-nomad-on-ubuntu-24-04-via-apt/77426)

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**Author:** [@mvavryniuk](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/mvavryniuk)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 15, 2026, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/cannot-install-nomad-on-ubuntu-24-04-via-apt/77426 "2026-05-15T15:52:55Z")

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Hi, I’m unable to install Nomad on Ubuntu 24.04 (noble) via apt. Is nomad missing from the noble suite?

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## [Nomad client allocation memory stats from telemetry seems confusing](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-client-allocation-memory-stats-from-telemetry-seems-confusing/27549)

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**Author:** [@surajthakur](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/surajthakur)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [May 15, 2026, 9:38am UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-client-allocation-memory-stats-from-telemetry-seems-confusing/27549 "2026-05-15T09:38:34Z")

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Hi Community, I am bit confused with the metrics of an allocation in nomad The value is shows of nomad\_client\_allocs\_memory\_usage for a job differs from what shows in nomad alloc status \<allocationID\> or the memory sta…

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## [Nomad 2.0.0, 1.11.4, 1.10.10 released!](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-2-0-0-1-11-4-1-10-10-released/77365)

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**Author:** [@mismithhisler](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/mismithhisler)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 21, 2026, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-2-0-0-1-11-4-1-10-10-released/77365 "2026-04-21T21:25:55Z")

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The Nomad team is excited to announce the release of Nomad v2.0.0! The release includes a number of improvements, bug fixes, and some security patches. Nomad 2.0.0 does not include any breaking changes. Please refer …

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## [Nomad Terraform Provider v2.6.1 Released](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-terraform-provider-v2-6-1-released/77356)

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**Author:** [@vishnuedavarath](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/u/vishnuedavarath)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 20, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-terraform-provider-v2-6-1-released/77356 "2026-04-20T14:02:51Z")

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The Nomad Ecosystem Team is thrilled to announce a new release of its Terraform provider: v2.6.1! This release includes all the major features introduced in the 2.6.0 update, alongside a fast-follow patch to ensure stab…

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