Nomad and Lightrun Integration

1. Nomad Integration
With Lightrun
HashiTalks

2. Outline
● Nomad - Short introduction
● Lightrun
● Technical Details
● Considerations

3. Nomad - Short Introduction
● An orchestration service
● Easy to use - simple, lightweight
● Deploys and scales - multi-region, autoscaling, recovery
● Supports integration with many agent types - Docker, Java, shell
● Well integrated with other HashiCorp products - Consul, Vault

4. What Is Lightrun
● A tool for Developers and DevOps engineers
● Gives you granular, real-time visibility over your production services
● Explore issues in real production environments, safely
● Easy integration with popular IDEs
● Easy to deploy
● Supports Java, Python & Node.js

5. How Does It Work
● Agents (integrated
to the service)
● IDE Plugin - client
● Management server

6. Demo

7. Enhanced Debugging
● On demand, dynamic
● Adding logs
● Creating snapshots
● Adding Metrics

8. Production as Staging
● Production environments are hard to duplicate
○ Data
○ Scale
○ Costs
● Feature flags
● A-B testing

9. From The Developer’s View
● Easy integration with popular IDEs
○ Manage
○ See real-time logs
● Easy to deploy and integrate
● Supports Java, Python & Node.js

10. Technical Details
● Lightrun offers a Nomad driver (currently only Java supported)
● The driver automatically downloads and sets up the agent
● Configuration can be done per job or per driver, for your convenience
● Easy to read the logs in the job’s log file

11. Considerations
● Integrates easily with Nomad - simplifies the usage
● Has negligible performance impact on your process when idle
● Lightrun supports fully on-prem usage or Saas deployments
● Agnostic to your Nomad deployments
● WIP - more work to be done

12. Please Visit us...
● https://www.nomadproject.io/
● Get your free account at: https://app.lightrun.com/
● Checkout our integration at: https://github.com/lightrun-
platform/lightrun-n-nomad

13. Questions

14. Thank You!
Lightrun.com | itait@lightrun.com