I have been thinking about starting this blog for a while now. Not just any blog. I just love software development. And in particular, I am intrigued by distributed systems.
What I want to learn is orchestration systems. This is where currently there is a monoculture. One software project that rules them all - Kubernetes. But Kubernetes has a reputation of being too large, too complex. When I company adopts Kubernetes, it has to dedicate a whole team just to manage it. To me, that defeats the purpose. Only large companies can afford to have a Kubernetes team. What is a small company or a startup supposed to do?
I want to learn another one, one that sits in that sweet spot - powerful, but not too complex. It is HashiCorp Nomad.
Why Nomad #
- Doesn’t just orchestrate containers, but also binaries and other workloads.
- Has a simple enough model that it should not be too hard to master.
- There are other reasons why Nomad is interesting, and I will explore and write about them in due time.
Learning in public #
I will be honest: I am a beginner. This blog is my attempt to learn Nomad in public. I will go through tutorials, read documentation, try things out. But I am a developer; I don’t just want to learn how to run Nomad, I want to learn how it works.
And I want to share my learning process with the world. No pretending here; I am learning it from scratch. Maybe I will want to learn other things in addition to Nomad, but whatever it will be, it will be about software, about distributed systems and about open source.
Nomad stopped being open source in August 2023. I believe in the power of open source, in community. So I want to learn the last version of Nomad that was still under MPL.
So here it is; I have to start somewhere. If you wish to participate, or to comment; correct my mistakes, or suggest the next topic; teach me or learn from me, feel free to leave a comment. I would like this to grow into a community project, and not just my personal one.