Honestly: Because Google uses it. Everyone wants to be Google and have Google size problems. Using Nomad is an admission that you're not really a big player, a

Honestly: Because Google uses it. Everyone wants to be Google and have Google size problems. Using Nomad is an admission that you're not really a big player, and your problems can be solved by an easily understood off-the-shelf solution (with a support program). Part of it might also be the fact that may developer don't know their options, and just pick the one solution they sort of know. I currently work on a project where we briefly had another consulting company involved. Their staff heard: container, devops and traefic and immediately reached for Kubernetes. The project has four different containers and no HA requirements. Our solution: Maybe kill off Traefic and use the HAProxy installation that we need to a different part of the project anyway and just deploy the four containers using docker-compose or Ansible.