Crack the monolith with Consul and Nomad
summary
Demonstrates migrating a containerized monolith (HashiCups) to microservices using Consul and Nomad, building infra with Packer and Terraform on AWS, converting Docker Compose to Nomad jobspecs, and registering services with Consul service discovery. Deployments move from single public VM to multiple private clients, add a Consul service mesh + Envoy sidecar and API Gateway with mTLS, and use Nomad autoscaler to auto-scale the frontend from one instance up to four under synthetic load — the demo deploys and scales successfully.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and agenda
- 1:50Monoliths vs microservices
- 13:18Consul and Nomad overview
- 23:44Demo setup and infrastructure
- 35:03Deploying the monolith on Nomad
- 44:35Adding Consul service discovery
- 51:00Multi-node deployment
- 56:44Service mesh with Consul
- 1:00:15Autoscaling with Nomad
- 1:09:07Q&A and closing
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