Portworx on Nomad

Deprecation notice

Support for Portworx on the following orchestrators will be deprecated:

• Docker Swarm and Docker Standalone
• Nomad

For installation instructions on other platforms, refer to the Platform guides section.

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This document presents the Nomad method of installing a Portworx cluster. Please refer to the Portworx on Kubernetes page if you want to install Portworx on Kubernetes.

This section covers information on Portworx on Nomad.

Nomad is a scheduler and job orchestrator from HashiCorp for managing a cluster of machines and running applications on them. Nomad abstracts away machines and the location of applications and instead enables users to declare what they want to run and Nomad handles where they should run and how to run them. Portworx can run within Nomad and provide persistent volumes to other applications running on Nomad. This section describes how to deploy and consume Portworx within a Nomad cluster.

Portworx as a Nomad job

These sections explain how to install, upgrade, and uninstall Portworx using a Nomad job:

📄 Install as a Nomad job

Learn how to install Portworx using Nomad job with CSI enabled.

📄 Upgrade Portworx using a Nomad job

Learn how to upgrade Portworx using a Nomad job.

📄 Uninstall Portworx using a Nomad job

Learn how to uninstall Portworx using a Nomad job.

Operate and utilize Portworx on Nomad

📄 Volume Lifecycle Basics with CSI

Instructions on creating and using CSI volumes

📄 Secure your volumes with PX Security

Instructions on creating and using CSI volumes

📄 Data Protection and Snapshots

Instructions on creating and using CSI volumes

Open Source

Nomad is an open source project developed by HashiCorp and a community of developers. CSI support for Nomad is still in active development with many open issues. Portworx participates in and encourages open source contributions to Nomad as well as the CSI spec.