From 0d620607fe57386b4f6544a039905d0e2010e2cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aimee Ukasick Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:56:42 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] add blog links and video to nomad vs k8s (#26286) --- website/content/docs/what-is-nomad.mdx | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/website/content/docs/what-is-nomad.mdx b/website/content/docs/what-is-nomad.mdx index 8c7658fc4..a60774c8d 100644 --- a/website/content/docs/what-is-nomad.mdx +++ b/website/content/docs/what-is-nomad.mdx @@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ Nomad is designed with the Unix philosophy of having a small scope while composing with tools like Consul for service discovery/service mesh and Vault for secret management. + + ### Simplicity Kubernetes is designed as a collection of more than a half-dozen interoperating services which together provide the full functionality. Coordination and storage is provided by etcd at the core. The state is wrapped by API controllers which are consumed by other services that provide higher level APIs for features like scheduling. Kubernetes supports running in a highly available configuration but is operationally complex to setup. @@ -118,7 +120,22 @@ Characteristics of teams that typically adopt Nomad: - On-premises environment, or hybrid environments - Require simplicity to move fast and fulfill business needs with hard deadlines -We continue to see small enterprises continue to standardize on a single orchestrator given the natural staffing and organizational constraints. There are not enough DevOps members to maintain more than one orchestrator, not enough developers to warrant diverging workflows, or simply not enough workload diversity to require more than one orchestrator. +We continue to see small enterprises continue to standardize on a single +orchestrator given the natural staffing and organizational constraints. There +are not enough DevOps members to maintain more than one orchestrator, not enough +developers to warrant diverging workflows, or simply not enough workload +diversity to require more than one orchestrator. + +### Resources + +Review the following resources for in-depth comparisons between Nomad and +Kubernetes: + +- [A Kubernetes User's Guide to HashiCorp + Nomad](https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/a-kubernetes-user-s-guide-to-hashicorp-nomad) +- [The Kubernetes to Nomad Cheat + Sheet](https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/the-kubernetes-to-nomad-cheat-sheet) +- [A Kubernetes User's Guide to HashiCorp Nomad Secret Management](https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/a-kubernetes-user-s-guide-to-hashicorp-nomad-secret-management) ## Nomad versus AWS ECS