[jacksonnic]

Nomad is very much alive and HashiCorp is committed to delivering a scheduler which concentrates on operational simplicity so teams can concentrate on building applications. It also gives the capability for running workloads other than Docker such as isolated fork for binaries, non containerised Java, etc. We have a great release with 0.8 and many features planned for the rest of the year.

Integrating Nomad with Vault and Consul is super easy and allows you to provide secrets, configuration and service discovery to the application with the right layer of abstraction, the application should not be aware of the scheduler it is running on. Cloud auto join allows super easy cluster config. Job files are declarative.

Yes, Nomad does not have all the features of Kubernetes, but we take a different approach believing in workflows and the unix phillosophy of a single tool for a single job. A fairer comaprison would be to comapare the HashiCorp suite of OSS tools to K8s, Nomad, Vault, Consul, Terraform, this gives you capabilities to manage your workload both legacy and modern.