Great writeup, even if I'm longing for more details about things like Unimog and their configuration management tool. Pay close attention to the section where

Great writeup, even if I'm longing for more details about things like Unimog and their configuration management tool. Pay close attention to the section where they described why they went with Nomad (Simple, Single-Binary, can schedule different workloads and not just docker, Integration with Consul). Nomad is so simple to run that you can run a cluster in dev mode with one command on your laptop (even MacOS native where you can try scheduling non-Docker workloads). I'd go so far as saying that it would even pay off to use Nomad as a job scheduler when you only have one machine and might have used systemd instead. You can wget the binary, write a small systemd unit for Nomad, then deploy any additional workloads with Nomad itself. By the time you have to scale to multiple machines you just add them to the cluster and don't have to rewrite your job definitions from systemd.