hashicorp/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. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
94/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 85
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 0.0
- age_days: 4111
- days_rel: 21
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 71
Adoption not part of the score
16837 stars · 2134 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
HashiCorp Nomad is a flexible, single-binary workload orchestrator that deploys and manages containers, non-containerized applications, batch jobs, and VMs across on-prem and cloud infrastructure at scale. It offers native Consul and Vault integrations, GPU/device plugin support, multi-region federation, a RESTful HTTP API, and a declarative HCL job specification.
Use cases
- orchestrate containers without kubernetes
- run batch and legacy non-containerized apps on the same cluster
- schedule GPU workloads for machine learning
- deploy apps across multiple regions and clouds
- simplify cluster management with a single binary
- migrate a monolith to microservices
- autoscale cluster and application workloads
When to choose
- you want a simple, self-contained orchestrator without external storage dependencies
- you need to run containers alongside legacy executables, Java, or QEMU VMs
- you already use HashiCorp Consul and Vault
- you need multi-region, multi-cloud federation out of the box
- you need GPU/FPGA device scheduling for AI/ML workloads
When to avoid
- your organization is standardized on Kubernetes and its ecosystem
- you need the full CNCF ecosystem of Kubernetes operators and controllers
- you require a fully open-source license - Nomad uses BUSL-1.1
- you need advanced Kubernetes-native features like custom resource definitions
Facets
application · maturity stable
container-orchestration scheduling deployment microservices infrastructure-as-code api-gateway cli plugin-system cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code microservices self-hosted windows go cloud self-hosted workload-orchestrator scheduler hashicorp batch-jobs gpu-support consul vault multi-cloud federation hcl devops containers linux macos docker
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad · fetched 2026-08-28 · 79ce9636881d
- homepage: https://www.nomadproject.io/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · f402ffcb680a
- site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/hcp/docs/vault-radar · fetched 2026-08-29 · 558d122b761a
- site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/install · fetched 2026-08-29 · c4e557309f17
- site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · e01770a9f901
- site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/api-docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 891f0008e12b
- site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/docs/what-is-nomad · fetched 2026-08-29 · fcacbfb4c700
- site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/docs/job-declare/create-job · fetched 2026-08-29 · 94fd04692aaf
- site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/docs/secure/acl · fetched 2026-08-29 · af35767e1b0e
- site_page: https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/integrations · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9d579c014dc5
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| hashicorp/nomad | main | 94 |
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