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I recently started using containerd inside Nomad, a breath of fresh and simple air after failed k8s setups!

• adamgordonbell 5y ago
  Oh, Nomad looks interesting. Why should someone reach for it vs K8S?
  • dijit 5y ago
    Nomad can run a lot more things but it’s not so batteries included. Nomad is trying to be an orchestrator. Kubernetes is trying to be an operating system for cloud environments. since they aim for being different things they make different trade offs.
  • orthecreedence 5y ago
    I have used nomad at my work for a few years now. I'd say where it shines is running stateless containers simply and easily. If you're trying to run redis, postgres, etc...do it somewhere else. If you're trying to spin up and down massive amounts of queue workers hour by hour, use it as a distributed cron, or hell just run containers for your public api/frontend and keep them running, nomad is great. That said, you're going to be doing some plumbing for things like wiring your services together (Fabio/Consul Connect are good choices), detecting when to add more host machines, etc. As far as how it compares to k8s, I don't know, I haven't used it materially yet.
  • merlinscholz 5y ago
    Cloudflare recently posted a great blog article on how/why they use nomad: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-use-hashicorp-nomad/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-use-hashicorp-nomad/