Take a look at Nomad before jumping on Kubernetes

Re:Take a look at Nomad before jumping on Kubernetes by justinsaccount on Sunday February 28, 2021 @01:00PM (#26295355)

I think nomad really needs a k3s equivalent.

The equivalent of k8s is not nomad, it's nomad+consul+vault

If you read through something like kubernetes-the-hard-way most of the really tricky parts are setting up the PKI infrastructure and bootstrapping etcd.

https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/nomad/security-enable-... starts to look a lot like https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way/b...

Vault is better than k8s secrets, but getting nomad working doesn't magically give you a working vault cluster.

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Re:Take a look at Nomad before jumping on Kubernetes by steeleduncan on Sunday February 28, 2021 @03:07PM (#26296559)

> The equivalent of k8s is not nomad, it's nomad+consul+vault

This was my stumbling block.

Nomad alone is clearly easier than k8s, and if it alone will suit your needs then you are in luck, but I didn't find installing and configuring 3 separate services any easier than k8s alone.

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Re:Take a look at Nomad before jumping on Kubernetes by AnxiousCoward on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @01:15PM (#26414202)

We had to add vault to our setup even if we use kubernetes - kubernetes secrets are a joke. We don't use consul, but managing istio, or any other service mesh, on top of kubernetes, isn't any simpler than running your own consul. (In fact, I have found istio to be a lot more difficult to get to do what you need than consul's service mesh, and with less functionality.)

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