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Re:How we use HashiCorp Nomad by BurritoAlPastor on Saturday June 06, 2020 @12:37PM (#23440375)
We run everything in Nomad for all our teams, but we don’t use any of the features you mention, and it’s not causing issues. We wrote some metrics for how much memory all the allocations are claiming, and we throw another EC2 instance in the cluster when we’re running out. Works pretty well. Preemption seems like a nice feature, but I imagine getting teams to coordinate their preemption values would be a political nightmare.
Re:How we use HashiCorp Nomad by q3k on Saturday June 06, 2020 @12:41PM (#23440407)
For me the ability to squeeze in some jobs in between the cracks at best effort priority is crucial (ie. any sort of high latency batch processing / experiments). I wouldn't want these extremely low priority jobs to compete with, I don't know, an actual customer facing service.

Also, we run on bare metal, so there really isn't a way to request extra capacity within seconds.