What is Nomad?
Nomad is a cluster manager, designed for both long lived services and short lived batch processing workloads. Developers use a declarative job specification to submit work, and Nomad ensures constraints are satisfied and resource utilization is optimized by efficient task packing. Nomad supports all major operating systems and virtualized, containerized, or standalone applications.
Nomad is a tool in the Cluster Management category of a tech stack.
Nomad is an open source tool with 14.4K GitHub stars and 1.9K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Nomad's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Nomad?
Companies
65 companies reportedly use Nomad in their tech stacks, including CircleCI, trivago, and Evooq.
Developers
183 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Nomad.
Nomad Integrations
Docker, Consul, Vault, Habitat, and Portworx are some of the popular tools that integrate with Nomad. Here's a list of all 9 tools that integrate with Nomad.
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Nomad's Features
- Handles the scheduling and upgrading of the applications over time
- With built-in dry-run execution, Nomad shows what scheduling decisions it will take before it takes them. Operators can approve or deny these changes to create a safe and reproducible workflow
- Nomad runs applications and ensures they keep running in failure scenarios. In addition to long-running services, Nomad can schedule batch jobs, distributed cron jobs, and parameterized jobs
- Stream logs, send signals, and interact with the file system of scheduled applications. These operator-friendly commands bring the familiar debugging tools to a scheduled world
Nomad Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Nomad?
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