Many workloads running in Nomad need a means for acquiring a secret or sensitive configuration information. HashiCorp Vault provides industry leading secrets management and Nomad has an integration that enables Vault to be a backing store for this type of information.
However, we kept hearing from the community that deploying, managing, and integrating with Vault was a lot of effort for smaller use-cases, early proof-of-concept work, and home labs. Nomad users wanted something easier to use out of the box for these types of projects. To meet these needs, we created Nomad Variables.
Nomad Variables enables you to provide secrets and configuration to your job: