Option to automatically detect Nomad when connected to a Consul that has Nomad

[pvandervelde]

It would make configuration simpler if it was possible for Hashi-UI to detect a Nomad cluster from the Consul cluster it connects to. That way as configuration you only need to tell it what the connection address is for Consul (http://localhost:8500 will do in most cases) and from there it could automatically detect Nomad, thus removing the need to add configuration for the location of Nomad.

[jippi]

Hi @pvandervelde

I thought about this setup a few times, my reasoning for making it explicit rather than implicit is because it's simply less code, and prevent me from making an opt-out feature as well, for cases where nomad could be auto-detected but nomad is not desired to be exposed in the UI

That being said, i would welcome a PR to add support for it, or to have a discussion on how it would work with the current configuration setup

[pvandervelde]

Those are good points. I hadn't thought that far through. I think the opt-out could be in the form of not enabling nomad (by not setting the --nomad-enable flag) or by overriding from the command line (by explicitly setting the --nomad-address option). But you are correct in that it would make the code more complicated.