How to connect front-end application with database application in Hashicorp Nomad?

Question

I am new to Hashicorp Nomad and trying to deploy one employee application, I have the code in kubernetes yaml file. Seperately I deployed frontend application with mongo database but I want to know how these two will contact each other because in k8s there is a concept of Selector but in Nomad what is available in behalf of selector and labels?

Answer 1

Nomad does service discovery using HashiCorp Consul. Check out this part of Nomad docs. https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/integrations/consul-integration/#service-discovery

Answer 2

There are few types of service discoveries in nomad.

• using Consul which is by default
• a simpler solution is provider="nomad"
• consul connect