» group Stanza

The group stanza defines a series of tasks that should be co-located on the same Nomad client. Any task within a group will be placed on the same client.

job "docs" {
  group "example" {
    # ...
  }
}

» group Parameters

• constraint (Constraint: nil) - This can be provided multiple times to define additional constraints.

• count (int: 1) - Specifies the number of the task groups that should be running under this group. This value must be non-negative.

• ephemeral_disk (EphemeralDisk: nil) - Specifies the ephemeral disk requirements of the group. Ephemeral disks can be marked as sticky and support live data migrations.

• meta (Meta: nil) - Specifies a key-value map that annotates with user-defined metadata.

• restart (Restart: nil) - Specifies the restart policy for all tasks in this group. If omitted, a default policy exists for each job type, which can be found in the restart stanza documentation.

• task (Task: ) - Specifies one or more tasks to run within this group. This can be specified multiple times, to add a task as part of the group.

• vault (Vault: nil) - Specifies the set of Vault policies required by all tasks in this group. Overrides a vault block set at the job level.

» group Examples

The following examples only show the group stanzas. Remember that the group stanza is only valid in the placements listed above.

» Specifying Count

This example specifies that 5 instances of the tasks within this group should be running:

group "example" {
  count = 5
}

» Tasks with Constraint

This example shows two abbreviated tasks with a constraint on the group. This will restrict the tasks to 64-bit operating systems.

group "example" {
  constraint {
    attribute = "${attr.cpu.arch}"
    value     = "amd64"
  }

  task "cache" {
    # ...
  }

  task "server" {
    # ...
  }
}

» Metadata

This example show arbitrary user-defined metadata on the group:

group "example" {
  meta {
    "my-key" = "my-value"
  }
}