AutoScaling docs are confusing

[Netlims]

Hi,

I'm trying to implement AutoScaling on AWS using Nomad and I find the documentation pretty confusing.
For example on the following topic, it's not clear to me where I should define the "target" definition.
https://www.nomadproject.io/tools/autoscaling/plugins/target/aws-asg#agent-configuration-options

It's under "agent configuration" so I guess it should be as part of Nomad agent configuration file (e.g. client.hcl), next to "plugin" and "client" blocks.
But when I do that Nomad fails to run with the following error: "Error loading client.hcl: unexpected keys aws-asg, target”.

I would very help us if the documentation can be clearer on that part.

Thanks

(At this point I still can't manage to set the autoscaling target, so no specific suggestions here)

[DerekStrickland]

Hi @Netlims.

Thanks for using Nomad and thanks for posting this here as well as on Discuss. I hope the examples in the autoscaler demos repo get you unstuck. We'll take a look at the docs as soon as we can and see how we can improve the situation.

[Netlims]

I looked at the demo but from there it seems like the agent configuration have no target at all and the target is defined at the job file itself.
Is that the case? Does each job needs to have it's own setting of aws_asg_name and and it's own region?

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