Nomad

A scheduler and orchestrator that deploys containers, binaries and batch jobs across on-prem and cloud machines.

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About Nomad

Nomad is HashiCorp's workload orchestrator. You describe a workload as a job, and Nomad schedules it across a cluster of machines, on premises or in the cloud. It runs Docker containers and also non-containerized applications, binaries and batch jobs, through pluggable task drivers.

The documentation covers parameterized jobs, access control lists, traffic security, failure handling and cluster upgrades. Nomad Pack provides reusable job templates. Nomad works alongside Consul for service discovery and health checks, and a sandbox is available for trying it out.

Strengths

  • Schedules containers and plain binaries alongside each other
  • Runs on premises or across clouds
  • Integrates with Consul for service discovery and health checks
  • Reusable job templates through Nomad Pack

Limitations

  • Aimed at clusters, which is more than a single machine needs
  • Source-available license rather than open source
  • Full service networking depends on pairing it with other HashiCorp tools

Details

Pricing
FreeFree to download and run from HashiCorp's install page.
License
Proprietary (BUSL-1.1)
Developer
HashiCorp
Platforms
Self-hosted, Command line
How it runs
Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Best suited for
Teams scheduling mixed container and non-container workloads across a cluster
Last verified
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Provenance
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