26 engineers on Hacker News describe using Nomad first-hand: 14 endorse it, 2 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“We run over 100k production applications on Nomad. But migration to AWS from private data centers, our HashiCorp bill, and the severe lack of Nomad talent, have finally pushed us to k8s (EKS).”
regret · production · ddreier · 2026-06-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've never actually used it in prod, only a lab, but I enjoyed it.”
endorse · personal · m4ck_ · 2026-04-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Yes have a few Nomad clusters in production and it's been great.”
endorse · production · ChocolateGod · 2024-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's hard to scale a globally synchronized distributed database for real-time scheduling.”
regret · production · tptacek · 2023-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use consul/vault/nomad at $DAYJOB. It's been a mostly stable platform for us.”
endorse · production · wingmanjd · 2023-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“running in production for over a year with no issues”
endorse · production · 1 yr · chatmasta · 2023-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Now we run our Nomad server on a single t3.medium instance that sits at a 0.1 15 minute load average”
endorse · production · cb22 · 2022-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“So far for me Nomad has been very pleasant to work with. We are a small startup with just three devs”
endorse · production · tommaybe · 2022-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to Nomad and are very happy.”
endorse · production · n42 · 2021-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Just deployed a small 3 node cluster in prod last week for this... Gotta say I'm mostly impressed.”
endorse · production · trabant00 · 2021-02-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been setting up Nomad on my pi cluster. I really like it. But the documentation really isn't up to speed”
mixed · personal · Arelius · 2020-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use nomad in production, no issues. Way less complex than k8s.”
endorse · production · zie · 2020-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Used it for years in prod - just awesome.”
endorse · production · marketlid · 2020-07-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Nomad + Consul. Used it for years in prod - just awesome.”
endorse · production · jordanbeiber · 2020-05-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I work somewhere that has one of the worlds largest Nomad deployments. It's easy to manage, and since 0.9.5 release they have resolved most of my issues.”
endorse · production · chucky_z · 2019-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am currently using Nomad which works on multiple platforms and that is a requirement for my particular setting.”
endorse · production · kev009 · 2018-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run Nomad quite successfully at SeatGeek, and I know of several Very Large Companies™ doing so at scale as well.”
endorse · production · josegonzalez · 2018-09-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“from the job orchestration with Nomad to the S3 optimizations and the Typst migration”
neutral · production · mr-karan · 2025-09-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am the founder of Tensorlake, and worked on Nomad and Apache Mesos in the past.”
neutral · production · diptanu · 2024-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“9x Pi 4B-equivalent ARM SBCs: 3x consul + 3x vault + 3x nomad server.”
neutral · personal · baobun · 2023-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In development we use docker-compose and in prod we use Nomad.”
neutral · production · chatmasta · 2023-03-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“how we replaced Nomad in our architecture”
neutral · production · tptacek · 2022-05-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Nomad and it's not hard to imagine how we would move to another cloud.”
neutral · production · staticassertion · 2021-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we ditched K8s in favor of Nomad.”
neutral · production · busterarm · 2021-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run a Raft cluster of 5 voting members with 13,000 physical Nomad nodes mixed across OS's with a bunch of random workloads using docker, exec, raw_exec, java”
neutral · production · chucky_z · 2021-10-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“7 servers for Nomad (same as above) used for orchestration and to schedule jobs.”
neutral · production · scarface74 · 2018-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?