Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad smd consul?

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  1. serf

    Service orchestration and management tool.

    There is https://www.serf.io/ which is a Hashicorp project as well, but the license doesn't seem as bad as nomad and from what I understand it's the basis for things like nomad and consul.

    Learned about it in this blog post: https://fly.io/blog/building-clusters-with-serf/

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  3. 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.

    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.

  4. securestore-rs

    A simple, encrypted, git-friendly, file-backed secrets manager for rust

    We use and maintain this cross-platform/cross-lang secrets management option: https://github.com/neosmart/securestore-rs

    It keeps secrets out of your environment variables and lets you manage secrets the same way you do code (in lock-step with the code that uses it and as easy to update a secret just by pushing to git), but it's definitely for smaller teams or projects.

  5. k3s

    Lightweight Kubernetes

    Opinionated meaning it picks, install, patches your CNI/Ingress/Load Balancer/DNS Server/Metrics Server/Monitoring Setup.

    k3s is probably most well known as it ships with bunch of preinstall software: https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s so you can just start throwing yaml files at cluster and handling workloads. It's what I use for my homelab.

    Paid things I've heard of include OpenStack and SideroLabs. Haven't used personally by SRE coworkers say good things about them.

  6. apisix

    The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway

    > I think etcd is basically a k8s only project now

    I hate etcd with the best of them, but etcd is used in a lot more places than just kubernetes:

    https://github.com/apache/apisix/blob/master/docs/en/latest/...

    https://github.com/traefik/traefik#:~:text=Etcd,

    https://github.com/zalando/patroni#patroni-a-template-for-po...

    https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/tree/0.0.26/etcd (this one shows up on HN quite a bit)

    https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon#features

    It's actually one of the major reasons I wouldn't touch those projects

  7. traefik

    The Cloud Native Application Proxy

    > I think etcd is basically a k8s only project now

    I hate etcd with the best of them, but etcd is used in a lot more places than just kubernetes:

    https://github.com/apache/apisix/blob/master/docs/en/latest/...

    https://github.com/traefik/traefik#:~:text=Etcd,

    https://github.com/zalando/patroni#patroni-a-template-for-po...

    https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/tree/0.0.26/etcd (this one shows up on HN quite a bit)

    https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon#features

    It's actually one of the major reasons I wouldn't touch those projects

  8. patroni

    A template for PostgreSQL High Availability with Etcd, Consul, ZooKeeper, or Kubernetes

    > I think etcd is basically a k8s only project now

    I hate etcd with the best of them, but etcd is used in a lot more places than just kubernetes:

    https://github.com/apache/apisix/blob/master/docs/en/latest/...

    https://github.com/traefik/traefik#:~:text=Etcd,

    https://github.com/zalando/patroni#patroni-a-template-for-po...

    https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/tree/0.0.26/etcd (this one shows up on HN quite a bit)

    https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon#features

    It's actually one of the major reasons I wouldn't touch those projects

  9. SaaSHub

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  10. mgmt

    Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management!

    > I think etcd is basically a k8s only project now

    I hate etcd with the best of them, but etcd is used in a lot more places than just kubernetes:

    https://github.com/apache/apisix/blob/master/docs/en/latest/...

    https://github.com/traefik/traefik#:~:text=Etcd,

    https://github.com/zalando/patroni#patroni-a-template-for-po...

    https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/tree/0.0.26/etcd (this one shows up on HN quite a bit)

    https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon#features

    It's actually one of the major reasons I wouldn't touch those projects

  11. stolon

    PostgreSQL cloud native High Availability and more.

    > I think etcd is basically a k8s only project now

    I hate etcd with the best of them, but etcd is used in a lot more places than just kubernetes:

    https://github.com/apache/apisix/blob/master/docs/en/latest/...

    https://github.com/traefik/traefik#:~:text=Etcd,

    https://github.com/zalando/patroni#patroni-a-template-for-po...

    https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/tree/0.0.26/etcd (this one shows up on HN quite a bit)

    https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon#features

    It's actually one of the major reasons I wouldn't touch those projects

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