- Lab
- A Cloud Guru
Using a Blue/Green Deployment in Nomad
There are times when you need to stage your updates before updating all of your jobs. With blue/green updating, you can run one or more updated jobs and "stage" them before updating all of the running jobs. In this hands-on lab, you will use a blue/green method to perform job upgrades on running jobs in a controlled manner. You have been provided with a Nomad server in developer mode, where you will perform the tasks in this hands-on lab. The Nomad server has been configured with one server agent and one client agent, and Docker has been installed so that Nomad is ready to run jobs.
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Challenge
Log in to the Provided Nomad Server
Log in to the server as "cloud_user" with the provided password to perform the tasks.
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Challenge
Create, Modify, and Run a Job File Using the Blue/Green Method of Updates
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Using the appropriate commands and the Nomad CLI, initialize a job file called example.nomad.
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Modify the nomad file to use a blue/green method for updates.
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Modify the job file to start two instances.
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Submit the job to run, and wait until the job says it is healthy for all two instances.
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Challenge
Change the Job File to Upgrade the Redis to Version 4
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Edit the example.nomad file.
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Change the version to be 4.0, and while the original job is running, submit the job to run.
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Check if two jobs are running at the same time.
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Challenge
Promote the Deployment
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Check the status of the job. You should see it ask for a manual promotion, and there should be two canaries.
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Promote the deployment for the updated version of Redis. You should see the promoted change to "true."
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