Adding Waypoint

In some cases, you may want to use Waypoint, allowing developers to deploy, manage, and observe their applications through a consistent abstraction of underlying infrastructure.

To interact with a Waypoint server and runners, you first need to install Waypoint on your machine.

TLDR: For macOS with Homebrew:

$ brew install hashicorp/tap/waypoint

Since we already have a running Nomad cluster, adding Waypoint to HashiBox is pretty straightforward.

By running the following command, you install a Waypoint server on the Nomad client in the us-west-1 datacenter, and register related services in Consul:

$ export NOMAD_ADDR=http://192.168.60.10:4646
$ waypoint install -accept-tos -platform=nomad \
  -nomad-host=192.168.60.10:4646 \
  -nomad-region=us \
  -nomad-dc=us-west-1 \
  -nomad-consul-service=true \
  -nomad-consul-service-hostname=192.168.61.10 \
  -nomad-consul-datacenter=us \
  -nomad-host-volume=waypoint-server \
  -nomad-runner-host-volume=waypoint-runner

No need to manually create the Nomad host volumes waypoint-server and waypoint-runner. They already have been created by Nomad clients via the configuration files.

Once done, the Waypoint UI is available at https://192.168.61.10:9702.