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I don't know about Nomad, though Hashicorp's Vault is going to do just fine I think. It fills in a gap in secrets management that K8S doesn't do out of the box.

Looking at doing Vault in HA leads people to look at Consul, which leads to Nomad. (Consul uses a consensus protocol for service discovery and I think that will be interesting for the next generation).

Last year, K8S had already captured the center of gravity, and it took a while for the rest of the dev community to catch up.

I think this year ia a lot of shuffling as the survivors settles into orbit around K8S. There is a lot of interesting innovations up the stack once orchestration is de facto standardized.

K8S still hasn't solved the stateful workloads, though it is introducing a lot of primitives to support those: controller hooks, third part resources, on top of which Operators can function.

I think we will see a lot more innovations as people create Operators. That can include anything from stateful loads for specific distributed stateful loads, to things like intrusion detection, ML-driven autoscaling, and so forth.