[tylerjl]

I administer k8s daily at my full-time job and administer a 14-node nomad cluster in my homelab. This accurately captures my sentiments as well. My nomad cluster is even spread across three different CPU architectures (arm, arm64, and amd64) but still works great.

One of the points I'd highlight in this post is just how good the combination of nomad, consul, and consul-template is. Even when nomad lacks some sort of first-class integration that k8s might have, the combination of being able to dynamically generate configuration files using consul-template plus nomad automatically populating the consul catalog means that you can do almost anything, and without much hassle. I use consul-template in the homelab to dynamically wrangle nginx, iptables, and dnsmasq, and it continues to work well years after I initially set it up.

I often wish I had the luxury of relying on vault+consul+nomad in all the environments I operate in.

[enobrev]

I haven't used nomad yet, but I use consul and consul-template for configuration on a couple clusters (work and personal) and they're great.