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Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad and consul?

58 pointsby dev_by_dayabout 1 year ago
Considering hashicorp has moved away from open source, does anyone know if there are any community forks of nomad and consul like there is now OpenTofu for terraform?

11 comments

muhammadnabout 1 year ago
I had been tired of waiting for someone (like Linux Foundation) to step up to provide opensource forks of Nomad and Consul.<p>Had been 5 months and the new hashicorp&#x27;s code has been changed (bugfixes, etc) and as the drift from the last opensource code becomes wider (even worst, a major change with major versions), i&#x27;m setup an organisation for the community to discuss and help on the future to work on the last opensourced version of consul and nomad.<p>My organisation depends a lot on consul and nomad and the BSL makes it unnecessarily complicated for our case.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OpenHotPot&#x2F;OpenHotPot">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OpenHotPot&#x2F;OpenHotPot</a> (Consul) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OpenHotPot&#x2F;OpenNood">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OpenHotPot&#x2F;OpenNood</a> (Nomad)
trilobyteabout 1 year ago
OpenBao is a fork of Vault. I&#x27;m not sure how well-supported the project is, but there is a decent amount of enthusiasm.
hitpointdrewabout 1 year ago
Serious question, why not just use kubernetes instead of Nomad?<p>The only “kinda cool”, thing I saw with Nomad is that it can “orchestrate” binary files, not just containers.<p>That said, putting binaries in containers isn’t very difficult.
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mdanielabout 1 year ago
I actually wouldn&#x27;t get really worked up about it since new owner introduces opportunities for new rules, doubly so given that IBM was one of the participants in OpenTofu so it seems they are more open source fans than not<p>I&#x27;ve also heard that the fuck-you license change was actually a negotiation tactic for the acquisition
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remramabout 1 year ago
I don&#x27;t think the license for Nomad and Vault is bothering users as much, there are no businesses offering forks of it or SaaS like there were with Terraform (as far as I know).
BillFranklinabout 1 year ago
Doesn&#x27;t look like it.<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hashicorp&#x2F;nomad&#x2F;forks">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hashicorp&#x2F;nomad&#x2F;forks</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;search?q=nomad%20fork&amp;type=repositories">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;search?q=nomad%20fork&amp;type=repositories</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=hashicorp+nomad+forks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=hashicorp+nomad+forks</a><p>There are products that do similar things of course.
nikisweetingabout 1 year ago
It&#x27;s not at all what you&#x27;re asking for, but when I last transferred away from Vault I ended up landing on 1Password.<p>There are still some rough edges but it&#x27;s been a decent secret store for my small team doing mostly Docker Compose&#x2F;bare metal stuff.<p>I&#x27;m curious to hear if any other people have managed to use open OR closed-source source password managers as Vault&#x2F;Consul replacements.
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mise_en_placeabout 1 year ago
You can use etcd for service discovery...that&#x27;s how k8s does it, no? As for nomad I never used it much, but did like that you could run things locally and have unified environments. I would recommend Nix but we all know what&#x27;s going on there, sadly FOSS has been consumed by political infighting as well.
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iamawackoabout 1 year ago
It doesn&#x27;t seem so.<p>I really love Nomad&#x27;s UX, so I hope we get one sometime soon-ish.
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stackskiptonabout 1 year ago
Not that I&#x27;ve found and it would make sense there isn&#x27;t really. Kubernetes with all it&#x27;s warts is clear Nomad equivalent and insert <i>random Kubernetes service mesh</i> here.<p>I know neither of them are as nicely opinioned at those two services but there is starting to be plenty of more opinioned Kubernetes deployments.
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vvorugantiabout 1 year ago
There is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.serf.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.serf.io&#x2F;</a> which is a Hashicorp project as well, but the license doesn&#x27;t seem as bad as nomad and from what I understand it&#x27;s the basis for things like nomad and consul.<p>Learned about it in this blog post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fly.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;building-clusters-with-serf&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fly.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;building-clusters-with-serf&#x2F;</a>
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