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Re:IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp by cowgoesmoo on Thursday February 27, 2025 @08:07PM (#43200471)
Having worked with a very large Nomad cluster, I cannot disagree more.

For simple use cases, sure, but you could also just use AWS ECS or a similar cloud tool for an even easier experience.

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Re:IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp by cmckn on Thursday February 27, 2025 @08:54PM (#43200775)
Can you quantify “very large”?
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Re:IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp by cowgoesmoo on Thursday February 27, 2025 @10:35PM (#43201428)
20k+ nodes and 200k+ allocs. To be fair, Kubernetes cannot support this large of a cluster.

Most of my issues with it aren't related to the scale though. I wasn't involved in the operations of the cluster (though I did hear many "fun" stories from that team), I was just a user of Nomad trying to run a few thousand stateful allocs. Without custom resources and custom controllers, managing stateful services was a pain in the ass. Critical bugs would also often take years to get fixed. I had lots of fun getting paged in the middle of the night because 2 allocs would suddenly decide they now have the same index (https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/10727)

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