kubernetes VS Nomad

Kubernetes and Helm for deployment

3 .Learn about containerization and orchestration tools such as kubernetes and docker

It is cross-platform and therefore able to be installed on any of Windows / Mac / Linux. This must be one of their advantages. Supposed that some files defining a virtual machine or a pod (of Kubernetes) for grouping ones are delievered, we can develop on the same virtual enviroment with defferent workstations.

Docker is a DevOps containerization service that separates your code from the infrastructure it depends on. Docker is often coupled with Kubernetes, which helps you rapidly deploy, scale and manage your containers. Together, they administer rapid software delivery and take care of its scaling.

Kubernetes is an Open Source container orchestration system. Kubernetes' API provides a uniform control layer for managing containerized services. There is a lot of great material available that explains what Kubernetes is. See Further Reading at the end for some suggestions.

If it's not something you can figure out from kubernetes.io, then its not something that you have to worry about being on the test.

Intermediate knowledge of Flux, Kustomize and K8s

There's been a highly annoying kubectl port-forward heisenbug open for several years which smells an awful lot like one of these dark Go network layer corners. You get a good connection establish and some data flows, but at some random point it decides to drop. It's not annoying enough for any wizards to fix.

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/74551

Well, like I said, I'm building a harvester/k8s cluster. So, the idea being that if one of the machines is busy or goes down, an other part of the cluster can pick up the slack. Basically, the 'Voltron' of computing, many pcs come together to form a more 'powerful' system. I can do this with any pc, but minis are good for homelabbing because they're cheap, don't take that much space, aren't that power hungry, and they still are powerful enough to run 90% of anything I throw at it, that isn't graphic intensive.

[Nomad]

Lob’s core API has been fully migrated to HashiCorp's Nomad, Lob’s Next Generation service platform. This is a major milestone for the Nomad Project, the Platform Team, and Lob Engineering. This migration is the culmination of a year of R&D, months of practice migrating other Lob services, and weeks of work on this particular service. It’s absolutely worth celebrating for the complexity and customer impact.

Most of our API’s migration to Nomad happened in August, but the key feature of autoscaling was not working as expected. This turned out to be a bug in Nomad which James Douglas tracked down. The issue was recently fixed and autoscaling works as expected, completing the migration!

Nomad by HashiCorp

There's also https://pot.pizzamig.dev/ which even has a Nomad(https://www.nomadproject.io/) driver in case you want to "orchestrate" the jails(as in deploy many jails at the same time across multiple servers)

The check stanza runs a health check on the service Since the service is registered to Consul, the health check runs on Consul. The above health check is configured to run every 10 seconds, and is given 5 seconds for the health check query to succeed. Health checks in Nomad are similar to Kubernetes health checks.

Not sure if it fits here, and might be a little more complex than what you’re looking for, but Nomad is definitely worth a look.

I'd like to also mention hashicorp nomad + consul. They're worth evaluating.

Hashicorp Nomad

We had a hard time finding this data when experimenting with carbon aware scheduling in Nomad. There seem to be a lot of orgs working on this, but it’s all third party as far as I know. I couldn’t find a first party (eg Amazon, Microsoft, Google, etc) that provided this data via an API. Very frustrating.

There are a couple resources linked here: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/blob/h-carbon-meta/CARBON...

The silver lining is that the folks who are working in this space are extremely friendly and passionate in my experience. Don’t be scared to “contact sales for an API let.” The few folks I talked to were extremely helpful.