[kvz]

Being a bit of a HashiCorp fan I tried Nomad for Transloadit but at the time it did not support persistent volumes. K8s had that already. The more I started looking into k8s as an alternative, the more compelling features I discovered that Nomad did not have yet.

With the velocity of k8s it's hard to imagine how Nomad could catch/keep up. K8s has operators, Helm, etc. That just means you can add battle-tested components off the shelve with a single command. So, less wheel-inventing and boilerplate writing to do for us.

With the backing of so much larger community/entities it also feels like I’m less likely to be the first one to discover a new bug. RedHat or Google or one of their customers will have hit and fixed it already, and my production platform keeps humming along nicely. K8s has just had more flytime and exposure to crazy environments and workloads, so more kinks are going to be ironed out.

I always did like the “do one thing right” unixy approach of Hashicorp’s toolset, and that you can pick the pieces you like. But (sadly for them) that means I can now pick Vault or Consul and run it on top of Kubernetes (re-using k8s' internal etcd is not recommended) if I wanted. I'm actually not overly sorry for them, seeing as how they're locking up more & more features behind enterprise products. I haven't checked in a while but wouldn't be surprised if they also had a Nomad Enterprise already. Nothing wrong with HashiCorp wanting to make money, but if there also is k8s without those restrictions..