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Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Docs amont
• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

Commandes et alias

• nomad-pack

Historique du projet

The GitHub repository was created on 2021-09-13. HashiCorp introduced Nomad Pack publicly in the Nomad 1.2 cycle: the 2021-11-16 Nomad 1.2 general availability announcement listed Nomad Pack as one of the new ecosystem capabilities after a beta period that began in October 2021.

Nomad Pack reached general availability at v0.1.0. The v0.1.0 release notes, dated 2023-10-31 and published on GitHub on 2023-11-02, added features such as generated variable override files, non-job templates, dependency vendoring, registry-cache changes, and a clearer split between registry and pack listing commands.

Historique d'adoption

Adoption follows Nomad's operator ecosystem rather than the broader Kubernetes ecosystem. The official docs compare Nomad Pack to Levant-style templating plus Helm-like registry and multi-resource deployment, and the default community registry is explicitly maintained for packs written by Nomad community members.

By 2026-03-18, the Nomad team announced v0.4.2 and said HashiCorp had a dedicated team for Nomad ecosystem projects including Pack, Autoscaler, and the Nomad Terraform provider. That release added deployment monitoring behavior, `fmt`, registry update work, richer variable handling, and other CLI improvements.

Modes d'utilisation

Operators set `NOMAD_ADDR` and, when ACLs are enabled, `NOMAD_TOKEN`, then use commands such as `nomad-pack list`, `run`, `info`, `status`, `stop`, `destroy`, and `registry add`. A typical flow is to list packs from the default community registry, inspect variables, pass overrides with `--var` or `-f`, and deploy a Nomad job bundle.

Pack authors use HCL metadata and templates to package one or more Nomad resources, with support for variable files, vendored dependencies, generated packs or registries, and non-job templates for adjacent configuration such as ACL policies or volume definitions.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Nomad Pack is significant because it is HashiCorp's answer to the missing package layer around Nomad job specs. It gives package managers a single CLI artifact while giving Nomad users a registry-oriented packaging model that is familiar to Helm users but specific to Nomad's HCL/job ecosystem.

Chronologie

• 2021-09-13: GitHub repository created.
• 2021-11-16: Nomad 1.2 GA announcement highlighted Nomad Pack.
• 2022-07-21: v0.0.1-techpreview.3 release published.
• 2023-11-02: v0.1.0 GA release published.
• 2026-03-16: v0.4.2 release published.
• 2026-03-18: Nomad team posted the v0.4.2 release announcement.

Related projects

• Related projects include HashiCorp Nomad, Nomad Pack Community Registry, Nomad Autoscaler, the Nomad Terraform provider, Levant, Helm, Consul, and Vault.

Sources

• https://api.github.com/repos/hashicorp/nomad-pack
• https://api.github.com/repos/hashicorp/nomad-pack/releases?per_page=10
• https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/tools/nomad-pack
• https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/nomad-pack-0-4-2-released/77251
• https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-pack
• https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-pack-community-registry
• https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-pack/releases/tag/v0.1.0
• https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/announcing-hashicorp-nomad-1-2