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Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.

33 mentions on Hacker News by 22 people: 2 stories, 31 comments · first 2016-09-29 · latest 2026-03-17

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  1. …for QUIC with Nomad! [1] We've always used a weird QUIC-over-TCP multiplexer called yamux. [2] [1] https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/23848 [2] https://github.com/hashicorp/yamux (I'm fairly certain libp2p's fork is actually better)
    comment by schmichael · 2026-03-17 · in Show HN: Antfly: Distributed, Multimodal Search and Memory and Graphs in Go
  2. Their license does not allow you to modify it and then offer it as a service to others: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/blob/main/LICENSE You can't really do anything with it except work for Hashicorp for free, or create a fork that…
    comment by weitendorf · 2025-12-04 · in Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s
  3. If not K8S, why not Nomad ( https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad )?
    comment by stevefan1999 · 2025-12-04 · in Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s
  4. …in the middle of the night because 2 allocs would suddenly decide they now have the same index ( https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/10727 )
    comment by cowgoesmoo · 2025-02-28 · in IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
  5. Thanks, hadn't heard of that. Seems pretty active per its commit activity: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/graphs/commit-activity But the fact that I hadn't heard of it before makes it sound not very popular, at least not for the bubble…
    comment by _flux · 2024-11-27 · in I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either
  6. https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/blob/v1.6.0/website/conte... seems to have existed since before the license rug-pull. However I'm open to there being some miscommunication because https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/docs/glossary…
    comment by mdaniel · 2024-11-25 · in Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes
  7. You mean the rugpull-stack? "Pray we do not alter the deal further when the investors really grumble" https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/blob/v1.9.3/LICENSE As for Kamal, I shudder to think of the hubris required to say "pfft, haproxy is…
    comment by mdaniel · 2024-11-24 · in Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes
  8. …into some commercial realities here around how much discipline we can demand from end-users. =) [0] https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/blob/v1.8.2/nomad/fsm.go#... [1] https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/blob/v1.8.2/nomad/fsm.go#...
    comment by 0x74696d · 2024-08-11 · in Building a highly-available web service without a database
  9. Nomad, from Hashicorp, comes to mind. https://www.nomadproject.io/ https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad
    comment by qohen · 2024-08-09 · in How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months
  10. …of Open Source you are using here, considering that you can see and download the source here: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad Are you maybe referring to their Enterprise offering?
    comment by zuntaruk · 2024-07-10 · in The coming eBPF revolution and why Kubernetes monitoring will never be the same
  11. Doesn't look like it. * https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/forks * https://github.com/search?q=nomad%20fork&type=repositories * https://www.google.com/search?q=hashicorp+nomad+forks There are products that do similar things of course.
    comment by BillFranklin · 2024-05-02 · in Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad and consul?
  12. I don't have any further insight, but looking at < https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/forks?include=active&page... > coughed up https://github.com/atlassian/nomad/branches although confusingly it says "updated last week" but browsing any…
    comment by mdaniel · 2024-04-23 · in IBM nearing a buyout deal for HashiCorp, source says
  13. I can't discern how many are just those "dependabot" bumps but the 1400 forks show some are active https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/forks?include=active&page... including CircleCI who I would think have a stake in a libre Nomad…
    comment by mdaniel · 2023-12-09 · in HashiCorp Vault forked into OpenBAO
  14. …also losing all info about all jobs. I don't know how well Kubernetes does in these areas. [1]: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/12792 [2]: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/17742
    comment by nh2 · 2023-10-10 · in Google Kubernetes Engine incident spanning 9 days
  15. …partial work has already been done. The developers may have other concerns. The related issue is https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/10220
    comment by nanmu42 · 2023-10-10 · in Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp
  16. Nomad, along with the rest of Hashicorp's flagship products, transitioned to the BUSL-1.1: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/blob/main/LICENSE
    comment by cipherboy · 2023-10-08 · in Homebrew to deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp
  17. …). I however failed to noticed those intentions in their license text ( https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/commit/b3e30b1dfa185d9437... ). Specifically the part in FAQ which says "internal production use is fine", but then license
    comment by akamenskiy · 2023-08-11 · in HashiCorp adopts Business Source License
  18. …Let me know if that helps. The PR which would ultimately make the tutorial accessible to all: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/pull/17580
    comment by munukutla · 2023-06-18 · in Show HN: Wasmtime Driver for Nomad
  19. …that provided this data via an API. Very frustrating. There are a couple resources linked here: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/blob/h-carbon-meta/CARBON... The silver lining is that the folks who are working in this space are extremely…
    comment by schmichael · 2022-09-07 · in Ask HN: How can I calculate CO2 emission of servers/VPS?
  20. I believe Nomad is hailed as the replacement: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad#readme I would caution one against "javascript framework syndrome:" bah, this framework is too complicated, I just want something simpler ... ok, it doesn't…
    comment by mdaniel · 2022-05-18 · in We reduced 502 errors by caring about PID 1 in Kubernetes
  21. Yeah, this pains me too. Here's a relevant issue to keep an eye on: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/3854 I've used an nginx-based S3 proxy in the past to get around this. Not ideal but it works.
    comment by glynnforrest · 2021-10-30 · in Creating my personal cloud with HashiCorp
  22. …equal--Nomad doesn't support live migration, which makes it a non starter for most VM workloads: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/2323
    comment by candiddevmike · 2021-05-19 · in Orchestrate VMs with Kubernetes
  23. …Nomad but more than once we bumped into this while setting up our jobs (and others too [1][2]) [1] https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/2625 [2] https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/8892 Thanks for all the work your team did. I…
    comment by jrnkntl · 2020-12-08 · in Nomad v1.0 release – workload orchestration
  24. …feature requests I've noticed a lot: * No autoscaling * Can't reserve entire CPU core: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/289 * No way to run jobs sequentially: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/419
    comment by syllogism · 2020-06-06 · in How we use HashiCorp Nomad
  25. Preemption is going OSS! https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md We fully intend to migrate more features to OSS in the future -- especially as we build out more enterprise features. As you can imagine building a…
    comment by schmichael · 2020-06-06 · in How we use HashiCorp Nomad
  26. …workload orchestrators: Swarm ( https://github.com/docker/swarm ) and somewhat more complex Nomad ( https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad ). Perhaps, even simpler orchestrators exist. If you're OK with having some vendor lock-in, you could…
    comment by ablekh · 2020-01-19 · in Ask HN: Simple cluster self-healing system?
  27. …or Terraform, but we should really do a better job of going from the dev agent to a cluster: - https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/tree/master/demo - https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/tree/master/terraform
    comment by schmichael · 2020-01-13 · in Maybe You Don't Need Kubernetes (2019)
  28. …integration and used a UNIX socket to allow Envoy in a container to contact Consul on the host: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/6516
    comment by schmichael · 2019-11-30 · in BSD Sockets Addressing
  29. …You'll be rigging everything yourself, but raw execution actually gives you a lot of rope ( https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/150 ). So if you need to do something really custom, Nomad might not be so bad. Kind of like embedded…
    comment by djhaskin987 · 2018-03-17 · in Ask HN: Nomad (Hashicorp) vs. Kubernetes?
  30. …easy to support new features and manually run generated commands to test our driver's behavior. [0] https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad [1] https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/drivers/rkt.html
    comment by schmichael · 2016-10-26 · in Running containers without Docker
  31. …someone mentioned LXC: initial LXC support will hopefully make it into the upcoming 0.5 release: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/pull/1699 (Sorry for the shill, I recently joined the Nomad team and am pretty excited!)
    comment by schmichael · 2016-09-29 · in Google, Red Hat Work on a Way for Kubernetes to Run Containers Without Docker