Nomad

HashiCorp Nomad is a flexible workload orchestrator designed for deploying and managing diverse applications, including long-running services, batch jobs, and containerized or non-containerized workloads. It provides a simple, single binary to enable workload scheduling and cluster management…

Key facts

First appeared: 2015
Category: technology
Problem solved: HashiCorp Nomad was created to simplify the deployment and management of applications across a fleet of servers, offering a lightweight and flexible alternative to existing complex cluster managers. It aims to efficiently schedule and run any type of workload, whether containerized (like Docker) or traditional (JVM, binaries), batch jobs, or long-running services, providing resource orchestration for diverse application portfolios.
Platforms: macOS, Windows, Linux

Related technologies

HashiCorp Vault
Prometheus
Grafana
OpenTracing/OpenTelemetry
HashiCorp Terraform
HashiCorp Consul
Docker

Notable users

DigitalOcean
Roblox
Target
Cloudflare
Tyk Technologies
T-Mobile