Nomad CLI, SHA256SUMS Signed By HashiCorp
nomad on EL 10 from releases.hashicorp.com: the client binary, not a server. HashiCorp's key lives in a GnuPG home of its own, pinned by fingerprint; the SHA256SUMS signature is verified before get_url checks the zip against that file, and the live test verifies it again, then runs nomad status against nothing and expects the refused connection. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.
Verification
Live-testedReally deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.
Conformance
- Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed
Last verified 2026-09-20 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify
Documentation
nomad-cli
HashiCorp nomad on EL 10 from the vendor's release, checked against the
published SHA-256 and the vendor's signature on it, pinned to a version, installed as root's binary
in /usr/local/bin. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on
Rocky Linux 10.
No package worth the name. EL 10 carries no nomad, and a
third-party repository is one more key to trust. This role takes the
release from releases.hashicorp.com, has Ansible's get_url refuse the asset unless
its SHA-256 is the published one, and the live test checks the asset on
disk against the same published value again.
The checksum file is signed, and the signature is checked first. HashiCorp Security
signs nomad_2.0.7_SHA256SUMS; the role ships HashiCorp Security's public key
(C874 011F 0AB4 0511 0D02 1055 3436 5D94 72D7 468F), imports it into a GnuPG home of its own under
/usr/local/src, asserts that fingerprint, and verifies the signature
before get_url is allowed to trust the file. The live test re-verifies
the signature and asserts the home holds exactly the expected key(s).
Pinned. nomad_cli_version is what gets installed, kept in a directory
of its own so the checksum file and the asset it names stay together. A
newer release is a variable change and a run; the same version is
changed=0.
Proven to run. The live test runs nomad status and expects
"connect: connection refused" - the binary ran all the way to the point where it
needed something this host does not have.
The client, not the server. This role installs the nomad binary
that talks to a Nomad agent over its API address; the same binary can
run a server, and this role does not make it one: no unit, no listener,
no data directory. nomad status against nothing reaches for
127.0.0.1:4646 and is refused, which is the live test's proof that the
client ran. Signed like Terraform: the SHA256SUMS signature is made by a
subkey of the HashiCorp Security key, and the role pins the primary
fingerprint. HashiCorp's products are under the BSL since 2023; this
role installs the binary, the licence question is yours.
License
Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.
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