docker VS Nomad

Compare docker vs Nomad and see what are their differences.

docker

Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems [Moved to: https://github.com/moby/moby] (by docker)

Nomad

Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations. (by hashicorp)
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docker

Posts with mentions or reviews of docker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-17.
  • how to rsync from a docker container to my host computer
    1 project | /r/codehunter | 24 May 2023
    Everything is working fine, but it is not currently doing the automatic code reload. I tried mounting the volume but there is some conflict with the way docker and virtualbox handles files such that the conflict leads to file changes from the host not reflected in docker container. (That's not the first link I have that appears related to this problem, it's just the first I found while googling it on another day)...
  • Where did the docker client repos go?
    2 projects | /r/docker | 17 Dec 2022
    github.com/docker/docker/client
  • Why does Moby have so many stars on GitHub?
    2 projects | /r/docker | 10 Jul 2022
    Moby is the core of Docker. https://github.com/docker/docker redirects to it.
  • Moving from IPV4 to IPV6 for my home server
    1 project | /r/selfhosted | 25 Apr 2022
    Docker however has made some major screwups in their IPv6 implementation, so it’s not so trivial as you’d expect it to be. There’s a whole discussion about it here: https://github.com/docker/docker.github.io/issues/6075 but the gist is: Docker cannot auto-assign addresses (SLAAC) like a normal endpoint, it also cannot request a prefix (DHCPv6 PD) like a router, you have to set it all up manually.
  • Wiki self-hosted software as docker guides
    1 project | /r/docker | 24 Feb 2022
  • What is the "default" value for "network_mode" in a docker compose file?
    1 project | /r/docker | 26 Jan 2022
    [1] https://github.com/docker/docker.github.io/issues/5325
  • docker-compose network range
    1 project | /r/docker | 23 Oct 2021
  • Why docker swarm is not popular as Kubernetes?
    16 projects | /r/docker | 30 Jul 2021
    That said, Swarm is definitely in maintenance mode, which is actually how some people like it, given that this means pretty good stability for the current features, instead of breaking changes, which are a slightly larger concern in the case of Kubernetes. However, this also means that new features will get implemented only occasionally, if ever - the last big one that i recall was Swarm jobs. Essentially, i'd say that it's still just a question of time until Swarm dies, but for now it's in the sweet spot of stability and usability if all that you need is a pretty simple and lightweight orchestrator.
  • Confused about how disk-space usage works with overlay2
    1 project | /r/docker | 13 May 2021
    From scrounging through the internet, my understanding is if multiple docker containers are run based on the same image, the only extra disk space used is what the writable layer uses and the read-only image data is shared by all the containers. https://github.com/docker/docker.github.io/issues/1520#issuecomment-305179362
  • Please don't upgrade Docker without asking first
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Mar 2021
    Wowww: https://github.com/docker/docker.github.io/issues/6910#issue...

    What the hell does "Docker's new direction to go back to its roots and focus on developer tooling" even mean? Docker is developer tooling, that's the whole product. That's not "going back to your roots" that's just doing your damn job.

Nomad

Posts with mentions or reviews of Nomad. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-02.
  • Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad smd consul?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 May 2024
    Doesn't look like it.

    * https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/forks

    * https://github.com/search?q=nomad%20fork&type=repositories

    * https://www.google.com/search?q=hashicorp+nomad+forks

    There are products that do similar things of course.

  • IBM Planning to Acquire HashiCorp
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2024
    I don't have any further insight, but looking at <https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/forks?include=active&page...> coughed up https://github.com/atlassian/nomad/branches although confusingly it says "updated last week" but browsing any one of the branches seems to be stupid old so I got nothing

    Finding conceptual forks, e.g. $(git push --mirror ...) would be trickier but I bet sourcegraph could do it

    Ultimately, the question boils down to: what risk are you driving down: hitching your wagon to a dead stack, not getting security updates, not getting PRs merged, $other?

  • Running Docker based web applications in Hashicorp Nomad with Traefik Load balancing
    3 projects | dev.to | 15 Mar 2024
    In previous post, we discussed creating a basic Nomad cluster in the Vultr cloud. Here, we will use the cluster created to deploy a load-balanced sample web app using the service discovery capability of Nomad and its native integration with the Traefik load balancer. The source code is available here for the reference.
  • Building HashiCorp Nomad Cluster in Vultr Cloud using Terraform
    2 projects | dev.to | 11 Mar 2024
    Nomad is really awesome!
  • K0s: Kubernetes distro as a single binary with zero host OS dependencies
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jan 2024
    I only heard of this today, but it looks really interesting. It seems to finally get Kubernetes a bit closer to something like https://www.nomadproject.io/ in terms of complexity to install and operate.
  • Embracing Simplicity: The Advantages of Nomad over Kubernetes
    2 projects | dev.to | 16 Dec 2023
    In the rapidly evolving landscape of container orchestration and management, two prominent players have emerged: Kubernetes and HashiCorp's Nomad. While Kubernetes has gained widespread adoption and popularity, Nomad provides a compelling alternative that stands out for its simplicity and efficiency. In this blog post, we'll explore the advantages of using Nomad over Kubernetes and why it might be the right choice for certain use cases.
  • HashiCorp Vault Forked into OpenBao
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Dec 2023
    I can't discern how many are just those "dependabot" bumps but the 1400 forks show some are active https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/forks?include=active&page... including CircleCI who I would think have a stake in a libre Nomad https://github.com/circleci/nomad/tree/circleci/release-1.5....

    Now maybe their goals don't align with the community, and/or they don't want to be in the maintainer business for such a project, but better than nothing

  • Remote execution of code
    4 projects | /r/Python | 5 Dec 2023
    Could this be a solution? nomad
  • Google Kubernetes Engine incident spanning 9 days
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2023
  • Homebrew deprecate and add caveat for HashiCorp
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Oct 2023
    It worth noting that Nomad UI(a official web admin panel) has log tailing utility built-in so maybe partial work has already been done. The developers may have other concerns.

    The related issue is https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/10220

What are some alternatives?

When comparing docker and Nomad you can also consider the following projects:

microk8s - MicroK8s is a small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for datacenters and the edge.

k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes

synology-wireguard - WireGuard support for some Synology NAS drives

Rundeck - Enable Self-Service Operations: Give specific users access to your existing tools, services, and scripts

microk8s - MicroK8s is a small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for developers, IoT and edge. [Moved to: https://github.com/canonical/microk8s]

Dkron - Dkron - Distributed, fault tolerant job scheduling system https://dkron.io

webcam - Golang webcam library for Linux

Docker Compose - Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

containerlab - container-based networking labs

dapr - Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge.

podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.