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, post

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.