DevConf.IN 2026

Nomad: Lightweight Orchestration That Complements Kubernetes
2026-02-13 , VYAS - G - Room#VY003

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.

What level of experience should the audience have to best understand your session?: Beginner - no experience needed

An Engineer with skill of DevOps and Site Reliability domain , coding enthusiast with a keen interest in Building Scalable Cloud Applications