Nomad Access Control Lists (ACLs)
Learn how to secure a Nomad cluster with Access Control Lists (ACLs).
Lab Overview
Nomad's ACL system secures access to the cluster by controlling who can read and write to its APIs. This lab walks you through enabling ACLs end to end on a running 3-server, 2-client Nomad cluster.
You'll enable ACLs on the servers and clients, bootstrap the ACL system to generate the initial management token, create an anonymous read-only policy, and then build Developer and Operations policies with matching tokens to see how Nomad restricts what each team can do.
We suggest running the Nomad Basics, Nomad Simple Cluster, and Nomad Multi-Server Cluster labs before this one.
What You'll Learn
Enable the ACL system on Nomad servers and clients
Bootstrap the ACL system and obtain the initial management token
Create an anonymous policy to grant read-only access to unauthenticated requests
Author Developer and Operations ACL policies with different capabilities
Create and use client tokens to verify that ACLs enforce least privilege
Prerequisites
nomad-basics
nomad-simple-cluster
nomad-multi-server-cluster
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