HashiCorp Nomad

HashiCorp Nomad is a flexible, lightweight workload orchestrator that enables organizations to deploy and manage both containerized and non-containerized applications across a unified cluster of machines. It can schedule a diverse range of workloads, including Docker containers, raw executables,…

Key facts

First appeared: 2015
Category: cloud_infrastructure
Problem solved: Nomad was created to solve the problem of complex and fragmented workload orchestration, particularly for organizations managing a mix of containerized, virtualized, and bare-metal applications. Existing orchestrators often focused solely on containers or were overly complex for many use cases, leading to operational overhead and difficulty in achieving a unified scheduling platform across diverse application types.
Platforms: On-premises, Edge computing, macOS, Windows, Linux, Multi-cloud

Related technologies

CRI-O
Grafana
Docker
Prometheus
HashiCorp Vault
HashiCorp Consul
Envoy Proxy
Cloud provider services (AWS, GCP, Azure)
HashiCorp Terraform

Notable users

SeatGeek
Roblox
Adobe
Datadog
HashiCorp itself
Pandora
Trivago
SpaceX