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by heipei 1957 days ago
I would generally agree with you when talking about things like running a k8s/k3s cluster for hosting your weblog on your Raspi. With Nomad it's different though, setup on a single server is basically a 10-line systemd service definition and then you can start submitting Nomad jobs to it that are equally easy to write. You get things like cron jobs (which is more complex with systemd), parametrised jobs with multiple parameters (not possible with systemd), restart policies (easy to mess those up with systemd) and a really polished admin UI which allows to start/stop/restart jobs and sh-ing into running jobs / containers. And all for the overhead of a single systemd service.