Nomad pointing to a Consul ran by Nomad itself

config.hcl

data_dir = "/tmp/consul/data"
log_level = "DEBUG"

server {
  enabled          = true
  bootstrap_expect = 1
}

client {
  enabled = true
  options = {
    "driver.raw_exec.enable" = "1"
  }
}

consul {
  address = "127.0.0.1:8500"
}

consul.nomad

job "consul" {
  datacenters = ["dc1"]

  type = "system"

  update {
    max_parallel = 1
    min_healthy_time = "10s"
    healthy_deadline = "3m"
    auto_revert = false
    canary = 0
  }

  group "consul" {
    count = 1

    restart {
      attempts = 10
      interval = "5m"
      delay = "25s"
      mode = "delay"
    }

    ephemeral_disk {
      size = 150
    }

    task "consul" {
      driver = "raw_exec"

      config {
        command = "consul"
        args = [
          "agent",
          "-server",
          "-ui",
          "-bootstrap-expect=1",
          "-data-dir=consul-data",
          "-bind=127.0.0.1"
        ]
      }

      artifact {
        source = "https://releases.hashicorp.com/consul/0.9.2/consul_0.9.2_darwin_amd64.zip"
        options {
          checksum = "md5:e3dab0e607ef137486d0ff0fe856e278"
        }
      }

      resources {
        cpu    = 500 # 500 MHz
        memory = 64 # 256MB
        network {
          mbits = 10
        }
      }
    }
  }
}