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Re: Running Nomad for a Home Server

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Post by rugwirobaker » Sun, Feb 21, 2021, 12:28 PM UTC

mrweasel wrote: post #22

Maybe it's because Nomad is a commercial product as well, but it's really sad that it doesn't get more usage. Kubernetes is the new hotness, to the point where people don't care that the don't really need Kubernetes. They just know that the big boys are using it, so regardless of scale, so should they. Kubernetes is exceedingly complex, and it needs to be, to support all it's use cases. However, I would claim that th…

I think we have passed the first stage where people have gone through a couple of disasters and have learned they actually didn't need majority of the features k8s offers at their scale. They are now actively looking for simpler tools which opens space for nomad and co. Plus success stories from companies like https://fly.io(yes I like them) with nomad are pilling up.

Re: Running Nomad for a Home Server

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Post by rugwirobaker » Sun, Feb 21, 2021, 12:41 PM UTC

linux2647 wrote: post #45

mrweasel wrote: post #22

Maybe it's because Nomad is a commercial product as well, but it's really sad that it doesn't get more usage. Kubernetes is the new hotness, to the point where people don't care that the don't really need Kubernetes. They just know that the big boys are using it, so regardless of scale, so should they. Kubernetes is exceedingly complex, and it needs to be, to support all it's use cases. However, I would claim that th…

I’ve often thought that when developers saw Kubernetes, what they actually wanted was some form of PaaS

it's not a PaaS per say but Hashicorp new product waypoint looks promising at least when it comes to deployments. A common deployment interface over several of the tools we love/and hate(docker, k8s, nomad,...) making them feel like good old heroku. The operators are probably going to keep wrestling with the underlying complexity but at least the developers won't need to add yaml dev to their CV anymore(HCL is much better in my opinion).

Re: Running Nomad for a Home Server

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Post by odinho » Sun, Feb 28, 2021, 2:07 PM UTC

3np wrote: post #29

We moved from k8s to Nomad at my workplace, and I'm currently running almost all my self-hosted software on a 10-node Nomad cluster (with Consul and Vault) as well. The servers for each of the three gives plenty of headroom resource-wise when run on any recentish arm64 SBC, so you can get an HA cluster for not expensive. If you integrate properly with them (which does take quite a bit of work with the ACL policies an…

What Ansible resources do you use for Nomad, Consul and Vault though? I've found a few but they all seem to lag behind release. Noone is up to date at Nomad 1.0.3. Would be nice with some half-way standard way of setting it up, like k8s has quite a few projects that do.