Nomad

HashiCorp Nomad is a flexible scheduler that orchestrates just about anything: containers, binaries, or VMs. Nomad 1.8+ (2025) focuses on Workload Identity (JWT) for secure, secret-less authentication.

When to Use

• Simplicity: You don't need the complexity of Kubernetes (etcd, controllers, CRDs).
• Non-Container Workloads: You need to orchestrate raw java -jar or nginx binaries directly on Linux/Windows.
• Edge: Single binary, low resource usage.

Quick Start

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

  group "cache" {
    task "redis" {
      driver = "docker"