{"slug": "nomad", "name": "Nomad", "category": "infra", "category_name": "Infrastructure and DevOps", "description": "", "recommenders": 2, "commenters": 5, "warners": 1, "score": 1.492, "rising": -0.65, "first": "2025-11-13", "latest": "2026-10-09", "why": "I have zero downtime deployment and rolling deploys.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I have zero downtime deployment and rolling deploys.", "icon": false, "domain": "royportas.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://royportas.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Nomad"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 777324001, "item_id": 48582750, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48582750", "by": "OhSoHumble", "date": "2026-06-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have zero downtime deployment and rolling deploys.", "excerpt": "I personally just self-host. The project that I'm working on right now uses Gitea internally with an action runner. I use Digital Ocean and run a Nomad cluster on top of that. Gitea and its action runner builds container images and then pushes nomad job definitions to the cluster. I have zero downtime deployment and rolling deploys. Dagger.io is in there somewhere to make local CI mirror what happens in the action ru", "context": "self-hosts own project", "use_case": "container deployment cluster", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Forge We Deserve"}, {"id": 776779888, "item_id": 48548743, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548743", "by": "mocamoca", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using Nomad for years without Consul.", "excerpt": "I've been using Nomad for years without Consul. Maybe if you complex networking requirements it is worth it, else don't really need it.", "context": "", "use_case": "container orchestration", "switched_from": "", "story": "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 775778249, "item_id": 48486140, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486140", "by": "stevefan1999", "date": "2026-06-10", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I used to deploy Nomad too, but I found it too underwhelming, especially with the networking side of thing.", "excerpt": "> Ever hear of a large K8s migration going well ...well, AI infra stacks are more or less k8s/cloud native, especially on the inference side. Nvidia GPU operator plus KubeFlow makes deploying models easy, and I did that manually as well using just the ollama, llama.cpp containers and especially vllm operator. I'm not sure about what's the measuring notation of \"large\" is, but OpenAI had a blog post about how to manag", "context": "", "use_case": "orchestration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Desktop spins up a VM without no way of stopping it"}, {"id": 775755106, "item_id": 48484694, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484694", "by": "stevefan1999", "date": "2026-06-10", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Nomad is kind of dead", "excerpt": "But Kubernetes, being a former Google project whilst donated to CNCF, is still one of the mainstream container orchestrator if not the biggest one (I believe we need to go over to supercomputers for that). Nomad is kind of dead and Apache Mesos is basically dead. Leaving Kubernetes as a natural moat, plus Google employees are still seemingly actively maintaining it. And also Go. 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Simple is better in that case. Just a docker-compose or two or three with app data stored directly on disk to be able to move things easily between VM/PC's if needed. If hosted on VPS, set up your containers to be accesible only through VPN and you're good to go. Things i use daily-ish: - Wireguard with wg-easy to access my home network and other way arou", "context": "", "use_case": "infra orchestration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"}, {"id": 777324001, "item_id": 48582750, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48582750", "by": "OhSoHumble", "date": "2026-06-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have zero downtime deployment and rolling deploys.", "excerpt": "I personally just self-host. The project that I'm working on right now uses Gitea internally with an action runner. I use Digital Ocean and run a Nomad cluster on top of that. 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Though as I recall, it makes heavy use of consul, which I have used in anger, and makes me a little weary (though that experience is likely very out of date).", "context": "", "use_case": "container orchestration", "switched_from": "", "story": "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"}, {"id": 775778249, "item_id": 48486140, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486140", "by": "stevefan1999", "date": "2026-06-10", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I used to deploy Nomad too, but I found it too underwhelming, especially with the networking side of thing.", "excerpt": "> Ever hear of a large K8s migration going well ...well, AI infra stacks are more or less k8s/cloud native, especially on the inference side. Nvidia GPU operator plus KubeFlow makes deploying models easy, and I did that manually as well using just the ollama, llama.cpp containers and especially vllm operator. I'm not sure about what's the measuring notation of \"large\" is, but OpenAI had a blog post about how to manag", "context": "", "use_case": "orchestration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Desktop spins up a VM without no way of stopping it"}, {"id": 775755106, "item_id": 48484694, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484694", "by": "stevefan1999", "date": "2026-06-10", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Nomad is kind of dead", "excerpt": "But Kubernetes, being a former Google project whilst donated to CNCF, is still one of the mainstream container orchestrator if not the biggest one (I believe we need to go over to supercomputers for that). Nomad is kind of dead and Apache Mesos is basically dead. Leaving Kubernetes as a natural moat, plus Google employees are still seemingly actively maintaining it. And also Go. 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