Just came here to second this. We evaluated both Kubernetes as well as Nomad for a relatively small cluster of some worker nodes and web services. In the end, t

Just came here to second this. We evaluated both Kubernetes as well as Nomad for a relatively small cluster of some worker nodes and web services. In the end, the ease of standing up a Nomad cluster and the whole feel of the thing won us over. Nomad is a single golang binary that you can run on your laptop and have a fully working working Nomad client and server, along with a builtin UI and command line tools (same binary). The story for production is the same: Throw the binary on your server, setup a systemd unit to run it and you have another Nomad node. If you're evaluating container schedulers and are not sure what you need, take an afternoon or so and just run it locally and play with it. If there aren't any specific features about Kubernetes you could point to that Nomad does not meet my suggestion would be to get started with it first.