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The Nomad agent is a long-running process which can be either a client or server.
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# Nomad Agent
Task drivers are used by Nomad clients to execute a task and provide resource
isolation. By having extensible task drivers, Nomad has the flexibility to
support a broad set of workloads across all major operating systems.
The list of supported task is on the left. Each task driver documents the
configuration available in a [job specification](/docs/jobspec/index.html),
the environments it can be used in, and the resource isolation mechanisms available.
Nomad strives to mask the details of running a task from users and instead
provides a clean abstraction. It is possible for the same task to be executed
with different isolation levels depending on the client running the task.
The goal is to use the strictest isolation available and gracefully degrade
protections where necessary.