> I tried using Nomad once after being a little worn out by Kubernetes' complexity. For some reason, the Nomad abstractions didn't click on the first couple attempts. In comparison, Kubernetes' abstractions mapped 1:1 to my understanding of the service oriented architecture.

<3 Nomad. However, Nomad only satisfies a really tiny part of Kubernetes ecosystem which is the ability to pack containers and schedule them efficiently in a cluster; Plus, it scales really well. Kubernetes provides a bit more than that.