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Nomad has been brought forth in a lot of comments, and it has a feature that nobody brought up yet, I think. It's multi-platform. It currently has official task runners for Docker, Isolated/Raw Fork/Exec, Java, and Qemu. It has several community-based task drivers, including Windows IIS and FreeBSD Jails.

Kubernetes supports mostly Linux, although has recently gained Windows node support.

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Indeed, if you are coming from a world with a lot of legacy systems but want to make Docker and containers orchestration your golden path, but still streamline all of your deployments, Nomad seems like great choice. At one point you might need more then Nomad can give you, but then you are at least familiar with concepts like raft, declarative CI/CD pipelines for containers, vault and secret handling, canary deployments etc.

I am extremely happy with Nomad, it is one of the best decisions we have ever made in our organisation. We had a thin abstraction layer over Consul + Docker Swarm that we could port to Nomad in a matter of a few hours and it's been rock solid so far.

But sometimes I wonder whether we are hurting our own careers not going down the k8s route. It really seems it has a bright future.

>But sometimes I wonder whether we are hurting our own careers not going down the k8s route. It really seems it has a bright future.

I believe the world will always have a demand for simple technology.

True that, but I may be in the job market soon, and all I see is Kubernetes and a plethora of tools related to its ecosystem I have no exposure to.

> Nomad has been brought forth in a lot of comments, and it has a feature that nobody brought up yet, I think. It's multi-platform. It currently has official task runners for Docker, Isolated/Raw Fork/Exec, Java, and Qemu. It has several community-based task drivers, including Windows IIS and FreeBSD Jails.

I think `rkt` and `lxc` are missing from your list.

LXC yes, but RKT is marked as deprecated on Nomad's documentation.

Oh bummer

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