Correct way to insert a Dummy or NOOP task

Nomad
#1

Hi, so I want to launch a job with the only purpose of installing service tags in consul.

When I try something simple like:

task "noop" {
  driver = "exec"
}

It sortof works, but nomad seems to have trouble at times while updating the task, seemingly getting stuck on the old task. What is the correct way to do this?

#2

Specifically, when I do this, the old task appears to remain in the “pending” state, and never progresses out.

#3

Hi @ScatteredRay,

I would be curious to understand the use case in doing this to ensure there is not a better approach?

There is not exactly a correct way to do this, however, I would suggest using a pause container such as https://gcr.io/google_containers/pause which should behave correctly.

Thanks,
jrasell and the Nomad team.

#4

Yeah, so I have a traefik load balencer setup, and I would like to setup some consul service keys so that I can setup a traefik load router to do a redirect. In this specific instance I would like it in nomad as I would like to eventually transition the service to nomad and this exists as a transition. But additionally, nomad jobs seem to be the best way to manage my traefik configuration.