HashiCorp Nomad
Nomad is from HashiCorp, another container orchestration software. Nomad is a container orchestration system that abstracts lower-level machine details and their locations. It has a simpler architecture compared to other solutions explored earlier. It is also lightweight. Similar to other container orchestration solutions, it will take care of resource allocations and the execution of applications. Nomad also accepts user-specific constraints and allocates resources based on that.
Nomad has the concept of servers where all jobs are managed. One server will act as the leader and others will act as followers. It has the concept of tasks, which are the smallest units of work. Tasks are grouped into task groups. A task group will ...
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