Nomad VS dapr

How much time are you willing to read and learn? These are not things you'll be able to pick up overnight. You might also consider Nomad over Kubernetes. Portainer also has a distributed model (and can use Nomad/k8s I believe).

I believe Nomad is hailed as the replacement: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad#readme

I would caution one against "javascript framework syndrome:" bah, this framework is too complicated, I just want something simpler ... ok, it doesn't work right in all circumstances, I'll just add this one feature(, ... ok, maybe just this one other feature)+ ... bah, this framework is too complicated!

In a previous hackathon, data analyst Chris Migirdic built an IDE where you present your own time series data/problem, and a layer could be provided over it to make time-series predictions. This iteration was quickly dubbed “BYOSQL,” or Bring Your Own SQL, by participants as he explained one could write any SQL query against Lob’s data warehouse, and you'd be able to fit a time series model over that. The most obvious application for Lob is evaluating mailpiece data. Another improvement over the previous version was performance; much of this was attributed to a shift to deployment in Nomad. Finally, another benefit of the program is to pick up what kinds of queries people are running and get an idea of what prediction problems our developers are trying to solve.

That being said, it hasn't kept similar offerings from continuing to pop up as a "less complex" solution. Take Nomad for instance.

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In this post, I want to show how you can implement your own tool using the HCL format. The HCL configuration format is used by all the amazing HasiCorp tools like Terraform, Vault, and Nomad.

Nomad Client (www.nomadproject.io - Container Orchestration)

Shoulda been more clear, sorry; I don't use docker or docker swarm. I'm using nomad as my orchestration system (and the cluster I have running at home is exclusively podman nodes, so no docker even). I need to rewrite the docker-compose in nomad's HCL format, which usually this only takes a few minutes but appwrite's docker-compose is pretty dense. I might write a script to do it, tbh.

I think it's often better to "pick your poison" in terms of cloud providers and commit to it, with a rough migration plan that you can execute if you have to. There'll be common patterns in your systems that can be repeated if a large-scale lift-and-shift has to happen for some reason. But it's never easy, and I've found different clouds to have their own idiosyncrasies that make migration difficult - larger migrations will inevitably take time, effort, and lots of planning.

If you're looking for alternatives, or something lighter weight than Kubernetes, I've used Nomad (plus Terraform and Ansible) and some shell scripts to get repeatable clusters deployed and migrated between cloud providers: https://www.nomadproject.io/

The OSS project I work on, Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime - an incubated CNCF project) implements the virtual actor pattern if anyone is interested.

https://docs.dapr.io/developing-applications/building-blocks...

https://github.com/dapr/dapr

There's an emerging piece of open source tech I'm very excited about. If you haven't heard of Dapr, it's one of the newest additions to the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) and promises to provide portable and reliable microservices. While on the surface that may sound great, a lot of you may be wondering "ok but what is it? how does it work?" While analogies and comparisons will never be perfect, I love to use them to help me contextualize. So while the comparison is imperfect, I personally think of Dapr like jQuery for microservices.

Dapr is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation project currently at the Incubating stage. It was created to help us as developers build microservices quickly with ease.

I'm trying to find a solution to integrate various microservices and stumbled upon Dapr, which looks pretty interesting.

Azure Container Apps is a container orchestration platform for deploying modern applications and microservices. With Azure Container Apps you can deploy your containerized apps without the need to take on the overhead of managing the infrastructure of the underlying systems. This service is still in preview, but provides you with the ability to use your preferred language or framework to build microservices with support for Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr). There's also scaling of your containers with Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA).

If you are looking for a unified way to build this across different clouds, you could look into DAPR https://dapr.io/

Take a look at DAPR if you are looking for a conceptual Queues, Storage, Pub Sub etc without being tied to any particular infrastructure. https://dapr.io/