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When the scheduler picks a node for each evaluation, the `LimitIterator` provides at most 2 eligible nodes for the `MaxScoreIterator` to choose from. This keeps scheduling fast while producing acceptable results because the results are binpacked. Jobs with a `spread` block (or node affinity) remove this limit in order to produce correct spread scoring. This means that every allocation within a job with a `spread` block is evaluated against _all_ eligible nodes. Operators of large clusters have reported that jobs with `spread` blocks that are eligible on a large number of nodes can take longer than the nack timeout to evaluate (60s). Typical evaluations are processed in milliseconds. In practice, it's not necessary to evaluate every eligible node for every allocation on large clusters, because the `RandomIterator` at the base of the scheduler stack produces enough variation in each pass that the likelihood of an uneven spread is negligible. Note that feasibility is checked before the limit, so this only impacts the number of _eligible_ nodes available for scoring, not the total number of nodes. This changeset sets the iterator limit for "large" `spread` block and node affinity jobs to be equal to the number of desired allocations. This brings an example problematic job evaluation down from ~3min to ~10s. The included tests ensure that we have acceptable spread results across a variety of large cluster topologies.
Nomad 
Nomad is a simple and flexible workload orchestrator to deploy and manage containers (docker, podman), non-containerized applications (executable, Java), and virtual machines (qemu) across on-prem and clouds at scale.
Nomad is supported on Linux, Windows, and macOS. A commercial version of Nomad, Nomad Enterprise, is also available.
- Website: https://nomadproject.io
- Tutorials: HashiCorp Learn
- Forum: Discuss
- Mailing List: Google Groups
- Gitter: hashicorp-nomad
Nomad provides several key features:
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Deploy Containers and Legacy Applications: Nomad’s flexibility as an orchestrator enables an organization to run containers, legacy, and batch applications together on the same infrastructure. Nomad brings core orchestration benefits to legacy applications without needing to containerize via pluggable task drivers.
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Simple & Reliable: Nomad runs as a single binary and is entirely self contained - combining resource management and scheduling into a single system. Nomad does not require any external services for storage or coordination. Nomad automatically handles application, node, and driver failures. Nomad is distributed and resilient, using leader election and state replication to provide high availability in the event of failures.
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Device Plugins & GPU Support: Nomad offers built-in support for GPU workloads such as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). Nomad uses device plugins to automatically detect and utilize resources from hardware devices such as GPU, FPGAs, and TPUs.
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Federation for Multi-Region, Multi-Cloud: Nomad was designed to support infrastructure at a global scale. Nomad supports federation out-of-the-box and can deploy applications across multiple regions and clouds.
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Proven Scalability: Nomad is optimistically concurrent, which increases throughput and reduces latency for workloads. Nomad has been proven to scale to clusters of 10K+ nodes in real-world production environments.
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HashiCorp Ecosystem: Nomad integrates seamlessly with Terraform, Consul, Vault for provisioning, service discovery, and secrets management.
Quick Start
Testing
See Learn: Getting Started for instructions on setting up a local Nomad cluster for non-production use.
Optionally, find Terraform manifests for bringing up a development Nomad cluster on a public cloud in the terraform directory.
Production
See Learn: Nomad Reference Architecture for recommended practices and a reference architecture for production deployments.
Documentation
Full, comprehensive documentation is available on the Nomad website: https://www.nomadproject.io/docs
Guides are available on HashiCorp Learn.
Contributing
See the contributing directory for more developer documentation.