I wrote (very vaguely) about remote work in mid-2014. I need to stand by the first sentence tho - time does fly by fast! What changed in those 7 years?

I left a polish startup. Had a middle-life crisis. Bought a motorcycle. Travelled around souther Europe on that motorcycle. Found a place at a small, fully remote company from Switzerland. And never looked back at a office work since 2018.

Official documentation describes the DNS service discovery configuration rather clearly. If you’re running consul as a system-wide service and running on the latest Ubuntu 20 LTS, you might encounter some gotchas as I did. I’m going to list a few for future-me and random internet strangers ;).

So I started to play around with Hasicorp Nomad, and for the time being, I’m done (well, not really).

I have built the new infrastructure around Nomad and tooling provided by Hetzner Cloud - cloud servers (as I was already using those anyway), their load balancer, internal networking, firewall functionality, and attachable data volumes.

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Due to a recent infrastructure redo, I had to upgrade a stack that I did not update for around two years. I had MariaDB 10.3.4 and decided to try to upgrade it directly to 10.7.1.

The overall process was relatively painless (data volume wasn’t that big), but a few things caught me by surprise.

Over two years ago I wrote about open source alternatives to GA and I was running countly since then.

As I’m still redoing my infrastructure using Nomad from Hashicorp after some struggle I realized that I don’t want to move Countly after all. Reason below.

Nomad by HashiCorp is an interesting alternative for workload orchestration. As the project reached version 1.0 somewhere in late 2020 after checking out its current feature set I have decided to pull the trigger and migrate all of my side projects, tools, and whatnot into new infrastructure based on Nomad backed by Consul and Vault and even give a Terraform another try. So HashiCorp all way in ;).

The process is still ongoing - I have realized that my infra setup is around 2 years old already and during that time I setup a lot of different projects - some of them are tricky to update/move - eg. my Crystal app was created in Crystal 0.3.x era and basically nothing works nowadays. But that’s a different story for a different post. Here are my first impressions regarding Nomad itself.