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Re:Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp by nanmu42 on Sunday October 08, 2023 @10:41AM (#37810890)
Recent version of Nomad has introduced many QoL features like secrets and service discovery, though logging collection remains unsupported.
Re:Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp by mdaniel on Sunday October 08, 2023 @01:13PM (#37812396)
> though logging collection remains unsupported.

Do you happen to have a link to the issue (I guess or docs, if it's their official stance)? I'd enjoy reading how they ended up in that circumstance

Re:Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp by kawsper on Sunday October 08, 2023 @05:16PM (#37814489)
Logcollection doesn't come out of the box, and you're kinda on your own to set it up, this article (although a bit dated) shows you what you must go through:

https://atodorov.me/2021/07/09/logging-on-nomad-and-log-aggr...

It also doesn't help that Nomad handles everything from Docker containers to managing regular applications.

Re:Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp by jen20 on Monday October 09, 2023 @02:41AM (#37817619)
Also worth noting that nomad’s closest competitor (Kubernetes) does not do this either. It’s a huge oversight in both ecosystems.
Re:Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp by mdaniel on Monday October 09, 2023 @11:21AM (#37821365)
We may be talking about different things, but GP's comment said "unsupported" whereas in kubernetes it's just not part of the control plane offered by kubernetes itself, in exactly the same way that cloud load balancer or even cloud auto-scaling isn't provided by kubernetes itself

Having read the sibling's comment, I think I better understand the situation since Nomad isn't a container orchestrator and thus there isn't one homogeneous place from which _to_ collect the logs, but in any sane k8s setup that's not true since both dockerd and containerd have mechanisms to influence that behavior and k8s is perfectly able, and supports, scheduling per-Node utility plumbing stuff like that without drama

Re:Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp by jen20 on Monday October 09, 2023 @12:22PM (#37822000)
Nomad has equivalent mechanisms for collecting logs to Kubernetes. None are built in, in either platform.
Re:Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp by nanmu42 on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @05:18AM (#37842431)
Would you like to provide a link? It would help me a lot. Thanks.
Re:Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp by jen20 on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @05:06PM (#37850263)
https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/docs/job-specification... covers much of it from the collection side
Re:Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp by nanmu42 on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @12:07AM (#37828420)
Yes k8s does not provide a out-of-box logging collection solution but since everything is in containers, we can piggyback on Docker or Containerd via deamonset to get all the logs.

Nomad on the other hand support various payload(native exec, exec via chroot, containers, even Firecracker VM by community support), so doing logging collection by end users is trickier. It worth noting that Nomad UI(a official web admin panel) has log tailing utility built-in so maybe partial work has already been done. The developers may have other concerns.

The related issue is https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/10220

Re:Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp by jen20 on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @01:05AM (#37828681)
All of the work has been done; not partial work.