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I looked into Nomad and my problem is having to run a minimum of six machines in a cluster for a few microservices. The argument could be made that we wouldn't need container orchestration for a few, but if we plan on scaling I don't want to have to deal with a fleet of servers. With ECS or EKS, I would only have to worry about the worker nodes so it's less to manage

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You can totally do it on three machines, each running triple duty as consul, nomad, and worker machines.

Or if reduced redundancy is accepted, on one/two ( either one with everything running as server and client, or two with one running Nomad, Vault Consul servers and the other clients)

Right, and it's not like there's actually a hard requirement for perfect uptime in a lot of settings.

why do you have a microservices environment for “just a few”?

We'll have more but I can't justify running six from the get go.

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