Not OP but going to split my reply in two. > Why do you think Kubernetes has so much more traction than Nomad? I'm a dev on a small team, there is just no way

Not OP but going to split my reply in two. > Why do you think Kubernetes has so much more traction than Nomad? I'm a dev on a small team, there is just no way I'm going to advocate for nomad when I can use a managed k8s cluster on any one of the cloud providers. Our CI tool supports k8s out of the box (but not nomad). Our logging stack is entirely turnkey - we have a sidecar container that _just works_. There is so much tooling out there that just works with k8s it would be insane to turn our back on it. > well-engineered stuff gets only a niche audience of people who appreciate such things. Well engineered is meaningless if it doesn't work or is a pain in the ass to use. A prime example is hashicorp vault. The documentation on setting that up to run is utterly terrifying for someone who is not a seasoned sysadmin. Of course I'm going to use the secret manager that comes with my cloud provider for free over the perfectly architeced 9 node vault cluster deployed with consulate for networking.