It does and most people that used Nomad were very positive about it. But with the turn that Hashicorp have taken I'm not sure that it now stands much of a chance.
I love Nomad but having used it in two different roles and now invested time to understand k8s properly, I would absolutely not recommend it.
Nomad is simple on the surface and could have been a great tool - but it is basically unusable on its own without tighter integration with Hashi’s own tools (eg Vault). Configuring and maintaining all those things is nontrivial and ends up being more annoying (for a lesser end result) than just using a fully managed kubernetes cluster like GKE
You'd imagine that any scheduler that's well integrated with Vault would have a huge advantage over other ones. Surprising that it's not like that for another product from the same company.
Seconded. Hashicorp Nomad has been a breath of fresh air for doing HA deployments for my workloads. Getting a small cluster setup to self host Nomad is so easier than Kubernetes and defining workloads is much easier to understand too IMO.
The only negatives about Nomad is the Hashicorp license drama that has happened recently and persistent storage can be a pain in the ass.
jarym|2 years ago
dwroberts|2 years ago
Nomad is simple on the surface and could have been a great tool - but it is basically unusable on its own without tighter integration with Hashi’s own tools (eg Vault). Configuring and maintaining all those things is nontrivial and ends up being more annoying (for a lesser end result) than just using a fully managed kubernetes cluster like GKE
robertlagrant|2 years ago
jdoss|2 years ago
The only negatives about Nomad is the Hashicorp license drama that has happened recently and persistent storage can be a pain in the ass.
hughw|2 years ago