Is HashiCorp Nomad a Better Kubernetes?

https://chaordic.io/blog/is-nomad-a-better-kubernetes/

by wfaler • 4 years ago

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mdaniel• 4 years ago

I am reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

dolni2• 4 years ago

This article displays an astounding level of ignorance about how to run workloads absent a container orchestrator.

If you run a docker container on autoscaling EC2 instances that register with a target group, you have apparently "written your own orchestrator."

wfaler2• 4 years ago

How did you arrive at that conclusion? The post claims nothing of the sort.

dolni2• 4 years ago

The post provides a laundry list of things that a container orchestrator does for you, and asserts that if you don't use Kubernetes or Nomad you have to implement all those things yourself.

If you have a set of servers, but no scheduler like Nomad or Kubernetes, you would be forced to do the following on your own:
Find the optimal server to place the execution of software on, for each deployment, given existing resource utilization of other processes & hardware.
...

If you have autoscaling groups there isn't any scheduler that I have to worry about (Amazon of course has one). Certainly I don't have to reinvent ten wheels just because I choose not to use a container orchestrator.

mcdermott• 4 years ago

Yes, it is. Kubernetes is insanely complicated. Nomad is industrial grade but still simple.

Is HashiCorp Nomad a Better Kubernetes?

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