Shaheen Sayyed
An Engineer with skill of DevOps and Site Reliability domain , coding enthusiast with a keen interest in Building Scalable Cloud Applications
Red Hat
Site Reliability Engineer
Session
When it comes to orchestration, Kubernetes tends to steal the spotlight — but it’s not the only way to run workloads at scale. HashiCorp Nomad offers a simpler, lighter approach to scheduling containers, VMs, and even raw binaries — without the operational overhead.
We’ll explore what makes Nomad a practical alternative (or complement) to Kubernetes. You’ll learn the key building blocks — jobs, groups, clients, and allocations — and see how Nomad’s minimalist architecture can run production-grade workloads on a single binary. We’ll end with a live demo of deploying and scaling a containerized web app, showing that “easy to run” doesn’t mean “less capable.”
Key Takeaways
- Understand Nomad’s lightweight architecture and how it differs from Kubernetes.
- See a live demo of deploying and scaling a containerized service in minutes.
- Discover where Nomad fits — from small teams to hybrid and edge environments.