Nomad vs serf

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)

#Distributed Systems

Source Code

nomadproject.io

Docs

serf

Service orchestration and management tool. (by hashicorp)

#Cloud Orchestration

Source Code

serf.io

Docs

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Nomad		serf
	Project
78	Mentions	0
13,398	Stars	5,607
1.7%	Growth	0.6%
9.9	Activity	4.8
about 20 hours ago	Latest Commit	3 days ago
Go	Language	Go
Mozilla Public License 2.0	License	Mozilla Public License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

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 2023-01-04.

Running on-premise k8s with a small team: possible or potential nightmare?
5 projects | reddit.com/r/kubernetes | 4 Jan 2023

[Nomad]
To Infinity and Beyond: Our Nomad Migration is complete!
3 projects | dev.to | 30 Dec 2022

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.

3 projects | dev.to | 30 Dec 2022

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!
Load Balancing avec HAProxy, Nomad et Consul …
4 projects | dev.to | 27 Dec 2022

Nomad by HashiCorp
Jail Manager in 2022?
4 projects | reddit.com/r/freebsd | 23 Dec 2022

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)
How to Convert Kubernetes Manifests into Nomad Jobspecs
8 projects | dev.to | 19 Dec 2022

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.
Opensource Docker Management?
3 projects | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 16 Dec 2022

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.
What is the best solution to orchestrate Docker containers ?
3 projects | reddit.com/r/docker | 11 Nov 2022

I'd like to also mention hashicorp nomad + consul. They're worth evaluating.
VMware Alternatives?
7 projects | reddit.com/r/sysadmin | 12 Oct 2022

Hashicorp Nomad
Ask HN: How can I calculate CO2 emission of servers/VPS?
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2022

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.

serf

Posts with mentions or reviews of serf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning serf yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

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

k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes

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

raft - Golang implementation of the Raft consensus protocol

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

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

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

kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

SaltStack - Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Get access to the Salt software package repository here:

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

gocelery - Celery Distributed Task Queue in Go

Juju - Universal Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) for Kubernetes operators, and operators for traditional Linux apps, with declarative integration between operators for automated microservice integration.

k9s - 🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

Nomad vs Docker Compose