Yes, I did look into Nomad. Again, specification of application to deploy is much simpler than kubernetes. But I think operational point of view you still have the complexity. It has similar concepts and abstractions like kubernetes when you operate a nomad cluster.

For a single machine, you don't need to operate a nomad cluster: `nomad agent -dev` instantly gives you a 1-node cluster ready to go.

if you decide to grow past 1 node, it's a little more complex, but not by a lot, like k8s.