Uninstall nomad

Hello, I have completely uninstalled ‘noamd’. Why do the following processes exist

# ps -ef |grep nomad
root      5321     1  0 Jan27 ?        00:00:03 /usr/bin/nomad docker_logger
root      5797     1  0 Jan27 ?        01:16:04 /usr/bin/nomad logmon
root      5950     1  0 Jan27 ?        00:00:39 /usr/bin/nomad docker_logger
root      6227     1  0 Jan27 ?        01:18:11 /usr/bin/nomad logmon
root      6386     1  0 Jan27 ?        00:00:03 /usr/bin/nomad docker_logger
root      6658     1  0 Jan27 ?        01:20:31 /usr/bin/nomad logmon
root      6664     1  0 Jan27 ?        01:20:53 /usr/bin/nomad logmon
root      6926     1  0 Jan27 ?        00:00:39 /usr/bin/nomad docker_logger
root      6947     1  0 Jan27 ?        00:00:39 /usr/bin/nomad docker_logger
root      9873  3358  0 17:16 pts/2    00:00:00 grep --color=auto nomad
root     12406     1  0 Jan20 ?        00:01:28 /usr/bin/nomad docker_logger
root     12452     1  0 Feb18 ?        00:57:17 /usr/bin/nomad logmon
root     12586     1  0 Feb18 ?        00:01:02 /usr/bin/nomad docker_logger
root     12834     1  0 Feb18 ?        00:55:31 /usr/bin/nomad logmon
root     12968     1  0 Feb18 ?        00:00:38 /usr/bin/nomad docker_logger
root     13247     1  0 Feb18 ?        00:54:19 /usr/bin/nomad logmon
root     13380     1  0 Feb18 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/nomad docker_logger
root     29483     1  0 Mar15 ?        00:40:47 /usr/local/bin/nomad logmon
root     29641     1  0 Mar15 ?        00:03:00 /usr/local/bin/nomad docker_logger
root     30372     1  0 Jan18 ?        01:42:12 /usr/bin/nomad logmon
root     30373     1  0 Jan18 ?        01:34:10 /usr/bin/nomad logmon
root     30738     1  0 Jan18 ?        00:02:12 /usr/bin/nomad docker_logger
root     30753     1  0 Jan18 ?        00:00:03 /usr/bin/nomad docker_logger

Hi @x602,

Nomad is designed so that upgrades or failures of the Nomad agent process don’t impact the running jobs. Otherwise, temporary failures or binary upgrades would cause a large amount of workload churn on the cluster and decrease overall stability.

In order to remove the workload, you’ll need to drain the node if you’re just removing a single node, or stop all the jobs before re-purposing the nodes in the case you’re no longer using Nomad.

Thanks,
jrasell and the Nomad team