Nomad

HashiCorp Nomad is a lightweight, flexible workload orchestrator capable of managing containerized, non-containerized, and virtualized applications across bare metal and multi-cloud environments.

When to Use

• Simple & Flexible Workload Orchestration: Deploying containers, non-containerized binaries, and batch jobs across clouds and bare metal.
• Lightweight Alternative to Kubernetes: Single-binary cluster management with significantly lower operational complexity.
• HashiCorp Ecosystem Integration: Native interoperability with Consul (service discovery) and Vault (secret management).
• Hybrid Multi-Region Workloads: Scheduling Windows and Linux jobs seamlessly across distributed datacenters.

Quick Start

job "example" {
  datacenters = ["dc1"]