Command-line reference¶

Most of your interaction with Nomad will be done using the nomad command. This command provides many subcommands: up, halt, destroy, etc. These subcommands are described in the following pages but you can easily get help using the help subcommand. nomad help will display help information for the nomad command while nomad help [subcommand] will show the help for a specifc subcommand. For example:

$ nomad help up
usage: LXD-Nomad up [-h] [name [name ...]]

Create, start and provision all the containers of the project according to
your nomad file. If container names are specified, only the related containers
are created, started and provisioned.

positional arguments:
  name        Container name.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit