I've said it in basically every thread on Nomad on HN, and I'll say it again: Nomad is an awesome piece of focused technology and an absolute pleasure to work with. There is one very clear way to do things, everything feels very polished, and you don't need a combination of tools or even third-party services to get set up.<p>I'd encourage anyone to try Nomad, download the single binary to your laptop, fire up the orchestrator in single-node dev-mode and submit a few lines of a service definition file and see how it feels. Regardless of whether you already know k8s or use it, just give it a try, it will give you a better appreciation for what Nomad does and doesn't do, and what decisions it made to get there. The same advice is true for any competing set of technologies really.